Ugly Truths
Every painting in Chronicle of an Unquiet Age documents the defining events, people, and issues that shaped its moment in history. Created in real time as events unfolded, each work serves as both an original oil painting and a historical record, reflecting the belief that the news of today is the history of tomorrow.
TRTA-2022-061 | December 2022 | Oil on Canvas | 34" x 26"
Titled The Ugly Truths, this final work of 2022 captures a year ending under the weight of political conflict, economic strain, and growing public distrust. President Joe Biden faced continued criticism over inflation, border security, energy costs, and recession fears, while Republicans prepared to take control of the House of Representatives and launch investigations into the Biden family, COVID policy, and federal agencies.
The release of internal Twitter files under Elon Musk also fueled new debate over censorship and coordination between technology companies and government actors.
The composition features Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, tied to the year’s most contentious stories.
The title points to hard realities that many believed could no longer be ignored—economic pain, institutional distrust, geopolitical conflict, and deep political division.
Elon Musk is releasing the "Twitter Files" and it's not pretty! In Operation Bluebird we see the FBI colluded with Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden Laptop scandal and interfered in the 2020 Election. Wow! The Ugly Truths are coming out and Jim Baker disgraced FBI agent was hired by Twitter as Legal Counsel and as Musk researched further realized Baker was involved in censoring info on Hunter that would hurt Biden before the election. And Baker seemed to be slow walking and stopping the release of Twitter files so Elon fired him immediately! Musk bought a crime Scene! Twitter plans on dropping more files regarding Covid orgins and more! Sam Bankman Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and extradited to U.S. $250 Million Bail largest ever and is now living with his parents in California. Zelenskyy arrives at White House and addresses Congress for more funding for the Ukrainian War. Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema left the Democrats Party and registered as an Independent. Brittney Griner was traded in a prizoner swap for Viktor Bout
"The Merchant of Death" which was a very bad deal and gave Putin his Mercenary back. As all this is going on Biden vacations in St. Croix for New Year's... 40 vacations so far. McCarthy invites Biden to the Border but Biden responds "there are more important things going on and McCarthy also calls for Mayorkas to resign or be impeached. What's next? Who knows but we'll see you in 2023! This painting records December 2022 as a moment of reckoning before the next chapter of American politics began.
