82 Artists Magazine January/February 2020
Portrait//Figure
JUROR: DAVID KASSAN
davidkassan.com1ST PLACE
D. McGarren Flack
St. George, Utah
flackstudio.comMind in Two 25A1
oil on aluminum, 48x78“Mind in Two is part of a series about calls I’ve experienced as a paramedic. The phrase
‘mind in two’ refers to schizophrenia; ‘25A1’ is a dispatch code used by Emergency
Medical Services that indicates nonsuicidal abnormal behavior. The woman represented
in my painting was feeding and giving water to two children she imagined to be living in
her closet. I painted the children, refl ected in a mirror, as seen from the woman’s mind
frame. In reality, the food she’d left had rotted, and no children were there.”