Thrift Store Art Gallery

Again, Romeo Taylor did not sign this, his most intense work, but stylistically and thematically it is clearly his. Here, two statues crumble into ruins in a wasteland sprinkled with weird, Dali-esque boulders. On the left, a cloaked figure with a skull face burns, thrusts a giant needle through his right thigh, and reaches with his left arm, the hand severed, for his companion. On the right, even the angel's halo is cracking, but he is in far better shape than skullface. The angel stands on the severed head of a white-haired ogre that seems to be blowing bubbles. A large cobweb joins the two figures. Given the themes of racial identity in the other paintings, I'm guessing that these figures represent the pyrrhic victory that results from tensions between black and white peoples.