an original mixed media painting on cradled wood panel
24 x 24 x 1 1/2 inches
ready to hang – wire hanger attached in back
sealed and protected with gloss varnish
Soon you will understand: she would not be here if things were going well, if certain plans had not degraded, if certain states were not in decay. She is urgency's pale representative. Skeptical, intelligent, somehow medical. Elegant, too –– in that cream-coloured coat, high at the collar, long to the knee, a swirling heart daubed to her chest. Black-handed, gloved in thin leather. Serious and Staring. A breaker of borders. A carrier of secrets and orders from a distant and unknown centre, saturated with lies and cold authority, a reader of signs, a calculator of efficiency and need, the on-site architect of control, or ruthlessness, or sudden mayhem, in the star-abraded cyan mint of early morning, in the waking light of that-which-must-be-done. Soon you will understand.
Part of a series I am doing on icons, archetypes –– characters that could be expressed on a card, like the symbols in Tarot.
The horizontal lines you see are string, used to help fix the wood panel to the easel, then primed and painted right into the image.
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
~ David Byrne
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
~ William Shakespeare
If quick, I survive.
If not quick, I am lost.
This is "death.”
~ Sun Tzu
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