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Motion is Rhetorical Painting

Grace Ann Cummings

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 15 W x 30 H x 0.5 D in

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I designed this originally to portray how motion is broken. We FEEL motion constantly and without end, but we SEE motion in terms of "stops" such as patterns, forms, structures, textures, colors, reflections, etc. I chose the mirror to be a reflection that moved the motion off the canvas yet back onto the viewer. I chose this particular piece of broken mirror because I liked the delicacy of the fractures in it and I also recognized it as a phallic symbol. The "broken motion" of an erect penis ejaculating sperm is such a wonderful symbolism of mortal existence with the sperm being released to swim toward their purpose of igniting its female counterpoint into life. I composed the words, paint strokes and placement of the mirror to show this vulnerable splendor of motion. - This painting has finished edges and is ready to hang.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15 W x 30 H x 0.5 D in

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I tell people that I paint God’s mistake which I know is controversial whether you are deeply religious or the opposite such as atheist. Yet my work is not about God, religion or atheism. My art is about the trauma associated with the inescapable relationship that mortality has with innocence. Our birth is not the intent of mortality, but it necessarily creates our personal annihilation. This personal destiny leaves each of us vulnerable to condemning our connection with innocent others who “created us to die” without our permission. Our “error” is our ownership of blame for mortality which is not the power over death; it is our power over cruelty. This inescapable destiny is where my art begins its expression(s). MY ART I use the ancient form of 2-D art to represent TIME as broken yet unfinished and continuing. Like the backside of a hung painting, we are absent before our birth and brought into reality through “others” who have marked our canvas of life already. Once born we see ourselves reflected on the "front side" of life yet witness our previous absence. My art examines this division as the relationship between hope and trust relevant to innocence. The change that each of us becomes by birth is a natural expression from life that we can perceive as a tradition of change. My art celebrates this with my rotation of mediums, vivid colors, energetic brush strokes, narratives of time-conflict, emotional dichotomies, vortex compositions showing our inescapable connection to a fractured reality, rhetorical word-play, and weapons symbolizing our relationship with mortal vulnerability. My “signature” is broken mirrors that capture the WITNESS as part of my art reminding us of our entitlement to mortal existence.

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