Still life with a mirror and a duck

€2,500.00

I painted this work in 2012, building it up layer by layer. Each layer had to dry before I could continue. This meant leaving the painting and returning to it later, when I was no longer quite the same person. My feelings had changed, and new colours and forms began to emerge. Instead of following a fixed plan, I discovered the painting again each time I returned to it. Sometimes, something I had never imagined at the beginning came to life on the canvas.

The stuffed duck in this painting stands between life and death. I chose an object that made me feel sad. I wanted to bring it back to life, to free it from its lifeless state. Yet it has no reflection in the mirror. It seems suspended between the desire to live again and the unchangeable reality of death.

I painted this work in 2012, building it up layer by layer. Each layer had to dry before I could continue. This meant leaving the painting and returning to it later, when I was no longer quite the same person. My feelings had changed, and new colours and forms began to emerge. Instead of following a fixed plan, I discovered the painting again each time I returned to it. Sometimes, something I had never imagined at the beginning came to life on the canvas.

The stuffed duck in this painting stands between life and death. I chose an object that made me feel sad. I wanted to bring it back to life, to free it from its lifeless state. Yet it has no reflection in the mirror. It seems suspended between the desire to live again and the unchangeable reality of death.

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