... and to Dust You Shall Return - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘… And to Dust You Shall Return’, Aluminum Dye Sublimation, 80 X 120 cm (32 X 48 inches), 2020 “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.” In this Genesis 3:19 verse we witness God's curse on Adam and Eve for their sin. God, who formed Adam and Eve out of dust, decides to banish them from Garden of Eden and announces that they will eventually die and return to dust. From this moment on, every day of Adam's and Eve’s life would be marked by an awareness that they would one day die. That's the curse all humans have lived under ever since. It is interesting to note that I have recollected this mournful tale during the COVID-19 world pandemic, which rocks the foundations of the entire world since the beginning of 2020. My artworks are usually about uncanny compositions, featuring inconceivable, yet fantastic realities which are portrayed employing dazzling colors and razor-sharp details. These fantastic realities cannot happen in our real world but only within my mind and consequently in my computers, where they are conceived, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed. In addition, I usually create my artworks by first producing a short footage around the painting's theme and then I choose one frame, which I later turn to be the final still artwork. The present painting is actually one frame that I have chosen among 250 frames that constitute the footage, and it seems to me that it fairly represents my artistic practice.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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