Tiger Striped Skylines Painting

This piece was inspired by a folk song by Townes Van Zandt. This is reflected in the text that reads "If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me for to ease my pain?". After undergoing a traumatic breakdown of a 6 year relationship the artist Zoe bleeds emotion onto the canvas, poeticising feelings of hurt, loss, and naivety. In processing hard to swallow emotions Zoe retreats into a protective childlike style with quotes like "Tiger striped skylines keep me safe from strangers that wanna take my soul". The artist leaks confessions of childhood abandonment and parental estrangement with the line "Help, my mother has gone missing!!!". A second child like reference, is noticable in the top right corner where the piece reads "The sky is closed. You can't go - Hamster stay", this is a desperate dialogue between the artist and a pet - for fear of being left anymore alone in her state. Finally in the lower centre of the piece reads the cutting line "It hurt like fire and splinters - The blue of romantic doom" as Zoe describes the pain at the end of a playful young relationship and nods to the ex-couples attachment to Blues music. She finishes the text element with a quick egocentric line "She is a sight, and a treasure" as she reflects on her worth via the view of the men in her life that admire her physical form as she abandons feeling for ego, in an attempt to make it through the breakup in one piece. The abstract linework and expressive mark making convey more childlike action as well as deep heavy marks of impulse and pain. There is a reoccurring opening in the painted frame in Zoe's paintings, the artist believes this is an escape from the reality of the feelings being expressed within the frame, and exit route. Zoe bases the composition on that of a classic landscape, skyline split, to convey a brutal emotional landscape. This piece is available only on loose canvas and can be framed on receipt by the buyer.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 31.1 H x 0 D in

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