LOOKING FOR A PERFECTLY GOOD HOME

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"To be, or not to be?"
Model: Endo
Size: 210cm W x 122cm H x 5cm D
© Protected under Arts Law Australia
Medium: Spray paints, varnish, wooden cut out figure,
heavy quality canvas stretched over wooden frame.
$3,000

This is a perfectly good painting 
with a perfectly good message 
looking for a perfectly good home.
Somewhere white perhaps?

An all white living room with a white long sofa looking out of a huge bay window on a white light day with a swimming pool and a view over Sydney Harbour perhaps?

When facing the work the light needs to be coming from the right and reflecting onto the work to enable the clear gloss figure to be illuminated. But also there needs to be a shadow thrown to the left when facing the work.
The right place is out there somewhere! - Neville☺


A synopsis of the artwork

The outlined figure could be any person seeking answers
driven to absolute choices by the crazy world in which we live.

The swimming pool is a symbol of the uncertainties we face in life.
Hence the message “CAREFUL DEEP WATER”. 
Being pink it could also be 'hot water'.
Perhaps the repetitive tile pattern is a rigidity 
or the formality of what life can be for so many?

The clear lacquered figure (to the right) 
can catch the light when viewed at certain angles.
It is the same outlined cut-out figure that is throwing a shadow 
across the scene (to the left).
These elements address in our lives the light and dark, 
the bright spots and the shadows, to be present or not.

The silhouetted figure appears to be walking on the water
which can be a nod to the highest part of ourselves and the spirit to survive
or to rise above it all amidst the difficulties of life's many challenges.

The artwork title "To be, or not to be?" from Shakespeare's Hamlet 
makes reference here to the choice each of us has every moment 
'to be' either conscious and aware or 'not to be' 
i.e. unconscious to ourself and the world around us. 
That includes understanding the pain that we as individuals and others might suffer.  

Ultimately it is a positive painting...
We need to acknowledge the darkness to appreciate the light.