Blood Has to Boil Before Skin Can Thicken

At its core this painting is about happenstance, two ex lovers crossing paths. I wanted to continue the exploration of people moving within environments, which are more artificially constructed, mirroring their emotional states with the use of totems, cyphers and text. This is a brief encounter, perhaps a chance meeting, a trigger of the idealistic side of the past and what could have been between these two young people. This is counter balanced by their bitterness towards one another using a seemingly innocent sentence ‘See you next Tuesday” which due to the parlance of our times has been used as camouflage for a rather more aggressive word. Brave faces from these two but blood has to boil before skin can thicken.

Blood Has to Boil Before Skin Can Thicken Acrylic on Canvas 60cm x 60cm