Slow Mover
48” x 36”
Watercolor and Ink on Paper with Metallic ink accent

Tribute to Dr. Coselli and his successful surgery of my father Herman Shooster for an Aortic Anuerism at St. Lukes hospital in Houston, home of the famed heart surgeon, Dr. Denton Cooley.

The central image, the patient my dad a “Slow Mover
He is surrounded by my two brothers, sister and mom
The artist, me holds the sign 'of life'
The surgeons hands frame the Steele on top of the central figure. His hands and the resulting effect is that of a savior, somehow God like. Life and death hang in the balance.

The central image is surrounded by a fabric of the heart, as if an illustrated manuscript.
There is a key showing a heart monitor and a heart with two bypasses. The numbers are ICU monitors are intentionally cryptic.

The design is blue and red, the colors of veins and arteries. On the right is the arotic arch it's diaphonously beautiful in it's base rawness and it feeds the rest of the image just as veins mop up the expensed oxygen.

Attached are the surgeons brain/head with head dress and lamp of illumination.
His breezy feet are to the left they are needed to keep him loose while working
The whole image feeds / reflects itself being self contained echoing ancient illustrated manuscripts and updating them with wireless devices it total the image becomes ... The soul, a story of a family where something obviously profound is happening... Yes the soul of the patient or artist. A cryptic testament to mankind.

A statement of appreciation for the surgeons and the team at St. Luke’s who saved my dad’s life and perform miracles on a daily basis.




It takes two to communicate via wireless device.
Mom and sister in prayer at the foot of the bed
the central image is surrounded by stars and landscape the stuff of life.



Here the Aortic arch is represented upside down feeding the images, giving life to the drawing.



Here the heart is show with extra arteries, bypasses.

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