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Background It was after seeing Paul Gauguin's painting Where Did We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? that I painted my version of these timeless questions. The painting is a visual poem of my long nights I endure in my painting annex. It is a full size self-portrait. In it, I walk through my empty art studio as I often do when it has long been emptied out. Where I have come from is a mood of vague shadow and cold stillness that seem to echo in emptiness. What I am is depicted in my form. It was at night while looking through the window of a plane that I began to wonder just how different humans are from machines. My face is half-empty to state the uncertainty. My body resembles a heavy machine. My stance is the incomplete answer to where I am going. I do not know where I am going and neither does the viewer. All that is known is that I walk towards it with resolute will. The figure appears so passionately determined that he could break free from the canvas with his next step. The viewer is met with a challenge. The dividers between work spaces appear to be alternate routes throughout segments of time. The easel next to the desk doubles as a sun dial to aid in this illustration. |
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Where Do I Come From? What Am I? Where Am I Going? |
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Size: 6’x4’ Oil on Canvas Price: $6,750 Paper Print: 12” x 18” = $40.00 ; 24” x 36” = $120.00 Canvas Print: 12” x 18” = $70.00 ; 24” x 36” = $220.00 |
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