Putney Man 2009 Painting

As I passed by on my bicycle and as we glanced at each other, I felt a sense of polarity, an emotion of empathy yet simultaneously that of desperateness. I was doing my thing and he was doing his. I was drawn towards the attempt to capture and emphasize this moment, initially I transcribed my memory's of the event through an ink sketch days later. It wasn't until some weeks later that I further developed the idea onto a bespoke canvas I made, because I had a specific size in mind for the picture, I had planned it to be of lifelike proportions and use a wealth of paint, to sculpt out the figure in the void created using a washed down color, which I call Putney Grey. I continued by substituting three dimension space by creating horizontals and vertical lines in the image very vague and broken down street attire, with just a glimpse at what could be some grey form of paving. I want the viewer to understand the moment I shared with this man, from my perspective. As you stand together and gaze across his side, you catch a glimpse of his lips and his nose, maybe an eye. As you stand together you start to wonder, does he have emotions to?, the void is all you will ever see of his thoughts, but he is a man, surely he must see the world just like you?

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 20 H x 1.5 D in

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