Human Mythos

Archetypal Figuration & Digital Semiotics Investigating the persistence of human gesture, mythic narrative, and collective memory across digital transformation. Grounded in early drawing lineages and semiotic analysis, Human Mythos fuses hand-rendered Apple Pencil mark-making with heavy palette-knife textures and generative synthesis—framing timeless human forms through contemporary illuminated media.Each work is produced as a museum-grade, large-scale Duratrans LED Lightbox installation (50"X 100")with verified 1-of-1 digital provenance.

Blackwell Asylum Burning by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
1. Blackwell-Asylum-Burning: The Roosevelt Island Vigil. A cloaked figure witnesses the destruction of the lunatic asylum in the night.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Dear New York by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
2. Dear-New-York: The Trumpet Player’s Love Letter. A visual anthem to the city, where music erupts into birds and horns in Grand Central.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Colin Triptych by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
3. Colin-Triptych: In Memory of Colin De Land. A tribute to a friend, framed by the clocks of Grand Central and the rust of a circus truck.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
The Sleep Walker's Dream by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
4. The-Sleep-Walker's-Dream: The Boy and Goliath. A seven-year-old artist’s dream of David, Goliath, and a skeleton clown on a 1950s television.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
The Oculus by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
5. The-Oculus: Saturn in the Station. A Goya-inspired reimagining of Saturn devouring his son, set within the Oculus at the World Trade Center site.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
The Think Room by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
6. Think-Room: Virgil on Roosevelt Island. A descent into the underworld beneath Blackwell Island, where the dead are ferried across a digital Styx.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
America by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
AMERICA: The No-Kings Rally. A cross-section of ordinary people standing with bravery against the shadow of tyranny.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Piranisi"s Theater by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
8. Piranisi's-Theater: The Panic and the Usher. A cinematic triptych featuring King Kong, a shell-headed goddess, and the silent watcher in the theater.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Polyphemus' Musical Mayhem by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
9. Polyphemus' Musical Mayhem: The Two-Headed Cyclops. The ruins of Lincoln Center, where the Cyclops brandishes a car as shell-headed women play his accompaniment.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Let's Book by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
10. Let's-Book: The Janus Office. A humorous look at white-collar panic, featuring the "Darkman" and a two-headed monster from the artist’s film history.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
The Convergence Point by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
1. The-Convergence-Point: The Neptune Iris. A submarine portal etched with the blinding of Polyphemus—the cyclopean eye of the angry god.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
Assault on the Constitution by Richard Rosenbaum – Archetypal abstract figure rendered in expressive crimson, ochre, and deep digital palette-knife brushwork for Duratrans LED Lightbox.
12. Assault-on-the-Constitution: The Black Banner. A political allegory of manhandling by the "Ice Police" under a darkened American flag.
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
13. the semplica girls: imagining a critique of consumer society inspired by George Saunders' short story
Digital Canvas & Hybrid Light Sculpture
Archival Duratrans on Calibrated LED Panel (Size TBD)
1-of-1 Digital Provenance Available
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