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How to Escape From Sharks Painting

Emily Elisa Halpern

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 48 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

As with all my work, there is no right or wrong answer as to how it should de interpreted. I really prefer that people come up with their own stories as to what it's about. That being said, for this piece, for me it became an abstracted imagining of being in the depths of the sea. Perilous fins are seen hiding behind clumps of sea life in a clumsy attempt to disguise themselves. But what's at the bottom? A magical bicycle and a path to wisk me away from danger. I reference dreams in a lot of my work. I'm not particularly scared of sharks- but think they are a metaphor for danger.

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

48 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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I maintain a studio in an artist colony in Los Angeles, California. Much of my recent work reflects on contemporary society and the political upheaval currently featured on the news. My interpretations are combined with my unconscious and become self-portraits of sorts- of a dark and quirky inner life. No one meaning predominates, only states of ambiguity, where strong undercurrents of emotion combine with murky, dream-like scenes of danger and destruction and contribute to a disjointed sense of unease in an unpredictable world.

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