The Temples are Burning Daniel J. Valadez She spends most of her

She spends most of her time painting in her studio with her Evil cat named Jack

Framed behind glass to 36 x 41 inches

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

where she draws inspiration from their simultaneous decay and growth

The Temples are Burning Daniel J. Valadez She spends most of her7 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