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Saturday Night Soliloquy Acrylic on Canvas 60cm x 60cm
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What happens when everyone tries to get a piece of you? A person
depicted in a situation, a decision that has been made which could possibly
have moved beyond the point of love and into a more complicated and
uncomfortable arrangement of dependency and control. I wanted to allude to the
main figure’s relationship through the dog which pulls aggressively but also
desperately. I wanted to use the dog as a device to illustrate the control of
the third party not present within the picture. This cypher animal also seems
to shoulder the desperate affection of “Don’t leave me I can change”. A magpie
surveying the composition a bird notorious for theft may in this instance
actually be a conduit for hiding something for safekeeping. I wanted to have the central figure in the
painting holding a simplified version of herself as an offering of both
confidence and vulnerability. She is not at her wits end, but she is
questioning questionable choices. As I progressed with this painting I wanted
to keep the use of text very succinct and matter of fact. As demonstrated in
the title of the artwork I came to feel that the canvas became a stage.
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