"City Park" Michael J. Randolph

City Park (New Orleans, LA), 2025

Digital art with hidden Easter eggs

31 x 25”

$1,125.00

Surreal beauty can be deceptive. Like a candy store tempting you into the forest of dreams and desires, Marie will guard the entrance of City Park, tempting you with hidden Easter eggs.

Marie Laveau was a prominent Voodoo priestess and healer in 19th-century New Orleans, a position she held despite being a free woman of color. Voodoo practitioners in New Orleans have sometimes claimed that the Gates of Guinee (which lead to the voodoo underworld) are located in various local cemeteries, scattered around Canal Street, which runs through the city's French Quarter. At one point there were a total of seventeen different burial grounds located in this district, placing Canal Street at the heart of a veritable "city of the dead."