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Local image #55
2022, Acrylic on board, 30x30cm
R990.00
Hypnotic eyes, a pair of big yellow snake eyes. Petrifying, becoming petrified, unable to take action. Holding the gaze, being looked at, being recognised, becoming known, becoming aware of the ‘Big Other’.

Strange flowers from another nature, a different nature to this common one. Are they a presentation of the imagination? This painting snows and flickers, questioning its authenticity, its appearance is like a digital screen. There is a sense of loss of the real, the real replaced with the image on a digital screen, evoking the sadness inherent in that.

Two souls, two lovers, union, communion, in an artificial field of pixels.

Are they real? Do they exist in some reality? Is this a projection of me in some different form or realm? What could this mean? What are all the meanings? Searching for all the meanings. There are so many, a plethora. There seems to be an infinity in this one, it is open, multivalent, all meanings condensed onto this presentation, or representation, its manifold meanings there all at once - Art.

Striving, the attempt at being, the failure, or the limited glory, at the false attempt. The imperfection and stunted being, fallen from grace, living in grace, being in grace, within a field of grace.

Being transformed, realising potential growth, preparation, the manifestation and physical appearance of that, and something about you. Striving for ascension, and the moments of transformation.

Impatience. Beam me up Scottie.