Narcissus and Fairness

16"x20" encaustic/ mixed media, 2022 August. 

The heavy heart is on the balance against an invasive ambitious mind. Fairness is compromised by the Biblical serpent growing out of the daffodil throwing apples on the opposing arm of the scale. Lady Justice in her coffin - the new ‘Jack-in-the-box’ of our age. “Narcissists can’t trust because they can’t truly [emotionally] empathize, and therefore they don’t understand motivation.”