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****** PLEASE NOTE***** - this work is smaller than 48'' x 48'' and will be shipped in a box. I was unable to choose this option on the website whilst uploading so the price of shipping will be less. ************ This image was passed to me through a Chinese social media app called WeChat. I had no idea what the Chinese characters said but the image immediately reminded me of a funny op-art painting. I asked my Chinese friend what the Chinese text said, and it roughly says that it is a magical picture, and if you can see a smiling face, you should immediately send the image to all your contacts, and you will have good things to come an hour later. If you do not pass the image to others, you will have certain doom. I thought it would be interesting to exalt this chain letter idea into a painting as it subverts the whole idea of something that can be easily passed on and shared with others. This painting comes with 2 options available to the owner. #1. The owner can choose to tear off the remaining tape and ''finish'' the painting by revealing the entire image. It has been intentionally left half-revealed. #2, The owner of this work can choose to heed the advice given in the text of the painting and give it to another person upon seeing the smiling face and receive magical good fortune, or risk the consequences and keep it to themselves. I am choosing to do the former and thus offer it on Saatchi Art.
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:17.75 W x 21.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:White Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Art prints are packaged and shipped by our printing partner.
Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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Born: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Living and working in Harbin, China. Artist Statement: I have always understood painting as a medium that embodies a thought process which depicts an accumulation of marks over a period of time. My paintings are a record of actions and reactions which often result in explosive, fractured, and chaotic images. I am interested in paintings that need to be visually unpacked; to discover which actions or marks came first and how they were applied and constructed. I aim to create paintings that allow a viewer to sift through collage-like forms and references to painting's history and visually deconstruct how the painting was made. I am fascinated by the ways in which children and adolescents create images. I currently teach English as a Second Language (ESL) and art lessons to students from grade one to nine in China, and I am impressed by how direct, uninhibited, and honest they are in the ways in which they create their images. The way they freely create their images reminds me of my interests in the Surrealist technique of automatism or “taking a line for a walk”. The brutal and direct manner in which the kids carve out their subject matter with pencil, crayon, or paint relates to my interests in the various Expressionist movements. What interests me most are the cruddy drawings scrawled on the back of homework assignments that I collect from the “bad students” who do not pay attention during my English lessons. I look at these drawings and wonder if they are merely created out of boredom or are attempts at rebelling against such a strict upbringing and controlled society. I am also fascinated by the large, temporary walls built around construction sites I see while walking to and from work. The walls are well abused with graffiti, splashes of paint, footprints, and spit. I find the history of these marks and the savageness of the surfaces beautiful and look at them as though they are paintings. As with the children discussed above, so too does painting provide me with an outlet and a way to freely explore the confusion and rebellious pent up energy inside me. It satisfies my urge to experiment with making and/or destroying something. Painting also provides the most immediate and direct way to create an image of something that I cannot directly perceive in the physical world.
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