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G217A Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes
Oil on panel
Apr to Jun 2010, Size 234x336 mm

About this painting

A painting about the shortness of life and anxiety at mortality. We are all candles, our wax burning away relative to our brightness, yet, in some ways, often reborn too, like the phoenix.

This is one of a series of pictures that features Phoenixes conceived around this time. The idea might have been visually inspired by the bird in 'The Landscape Of Anna Q. Nilsson', but there was a definite desire to make the bird from white candle wax. The picture was drawn at a time of stress when my computer had a hard drive failure, so the first two days of sketching were done, unusually, from my imagination.

Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes (Original)
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