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G194A The Transmittance Of Pity Falsely Perceived As Love Through A One-Way Mirror
Oil and white gold on panel
Nov 2009 to Jan 2010, Size 640x400 mm

About this painting

This painting explores a feeling of being pitied, or perhaps instead being loved, and the uncertainty of which is true. The one sending the emotion, the transmitter, knows which is true, but the truth can never be clearly known or shown. The emotions hang in something like a quantum state of uncertainty; certain for the universe, while the subject can consider either is true, depending on viewpoint. The 'one-way mirror' of the title reflects back to the subject, leaving the receiver none-the-wiser.

The mirror here is the ribbon of white-gold, the figures on the left the sender, or shattered reality of many senders. The subject sits on the moon, the distant ponderer.

Technical details

For an underpainting a colour must be permanent, opaque, fast drying, and it usually helps to be dull in chroma (that is, greyish). For this picture black, white, yellow ochre, light red, and cobalt turquoise were used; testing the colours first in a small size study.

The painting features white-gold leaf.

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