COAL MAN: THE CENTRAL CIRCLE
"Today is the time of peril. Age of tears, anguish, and torment. Lonely above all. Full of bitter pain and dread. Sometimes the dread feels too big for my soul to contain. An explosive release is desired."
Coleman’s self-portrait wearing the jeweler’s lenses (the coal miner’s helmet), and brushes (his shovels). In his hands he holds the fruits of his labor, the painting Faith.

The artist is surrounded by spirits and hallucinations that haunt him in sleep and in intoxication.
Corky the Killer, a children's story about syphillis (see also I Am Joe's Fear of Disease)
Lovingly framed photo of Junior, Coleman's adopted pickled son. See also Faith key for more Junior.
Deviant, Harold Schechter's masterful true-crime book about Ed Gein, the subject of another of Coleman's paintings. Schechter contributed the main essay to the Coleman book Original Sin, available in our catalog.
OUTER FRAME | CYCLE OF PAIN | CENTRAL CIRCLE
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