Stanton Stephens
Driving north on I-5 past Ravenna, there’s no way you can miss the Bettie Page house. For 10 years, a coy and shirtless Page greeted drivers as a mural on the side of Jessica Baxter’s home, until people defaced the mural with gray paint this summer. To replace the artwork, she enlisted the help of local artist Two Thangs, aka Matthew Brennan IV. As it happens, Brennan specializes in pop art paintings of people’s two favorite things. Now the side of Baxter’s home will display two people: Bettie Page and drag icon Divine. Brennan has been taking Two Thangs commissions for about a year and a half.
