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Painting of an urban landscape with a girl standing in front of a weathered concrete wall, tarnished by the marks of time and overgrown by ivy. Her red dress - bright and almost shocking against the drab concrete - seems to light up at dusk, a rare sign of vibrancy in an environment where hope and color have slowly eaten away. In her arms, she carries a doll wrapped in a white dress, battered and covered in dust and stains. The only precious thing she owns.
The girl looks straight ahead, with eyes that seem much older than her age suggests. Her expression suggests a silence, perhaps a world of thoughts that swallows her whole inside. Is it hope, is it despair? Her gaze is both piercing and empty.
This is an image of resilience, lost innocence and the question of whether you can keep dreaming even when you lose everything around you.
The original artwork is a Mixed Media painting on a large canvas,
made with acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel chalk and marker.
I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards.. Read more…