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Title: By the roadside Dimensions: 11 ½ in x 9 in Year: 1999 Medium: Gouache on paper Price: Not for Sale |
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This painting started off as an illustration of a short
story, but somewhere in the middle I decided to personalize it. The symbolism
in the painting is from the story, such as the three men in the background,
as protagonists of the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil trilogy. The
tree is the prototype of the Tree of Life, depicting the endless cycle of the
hunter and the hunted, with the snake about to prey on its helpless victim,
while the vulture expectantly waits. The landscape in the foreground is
littered simultaneously with snakes and flowers, reflective of negative and
positive elements within the range of human emotion. The border is made from
a web of fetuses in their various stages of development. |
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