The Temples are Burning Daniel J. Valadez was the first person in

was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever

Edith Lebeau is a Canadian artist based on the north shore of Montreal

and studied every single medium but painting at the University of New Mexico

I am able to create a lush and abundant palette that enhances the atmospheric elements of my work

emotion and consciousness

The Temples are Burning Daniel J. Valadez was the first person in7 x 18 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed