By THEDIRTYFABULOUS
Located in Dallas, TX
Title: The Subtle Threads of Fate
Artist: thedirtyfabulous
Medium: mixed media on metal with polyurethane varnish
Size: 60” x 40” horizontal format
Date: 2013
Description:
“The Subtle Threads of Fate” is a line taken from the novel Wind up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami. This painting does not illustrate any particular passage or character in the novel. Rather, it is a meditation on death and the symbolic, almost prophetic quality, even the most mundane occurrences in our lives can have upon us. This painting also serves, obliquely, as homage to the author. It is mirrored into two halves in a broken symmetry. On the left side images refer to spring, opulence and excess. The right side of the composition refers to states of decay, death, winter and transcendence. At the top of the painting, two muses with intertwined hair and coral branches support an interconnected series of tarot-card type images. These cards feature images of death, power lines at dusk, a maiden at a spinning wheel and an omniscient eye which was borrowed from an old surrealist photograph. These images act to further weave together references and connections the painting alludes to. Two white hands of fate situated at the lower portion of the picture act as a connecting point to these images. At the bottom center of the work is an image of an old astrological map...
Category
2010s Contemporary Polyurethane Figurative Paintings