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Published: 2015-02-03 06:03:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 20739; Favourites: 1257; Downloads: 354
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Orange Is Not Your Color, 12x12", acrylic & colored pencil
My contribution for this Saturday's 2nd Annual Pow! Wow! Hawaii! exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art . I hope you can stop by!Β Original is available for purchase by contacting Thinkspace Gallery (contact@thinkspacegallery.com).
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This is just the best. Love everything about it!
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Orange confuse me...Still can not take a desicion about it.
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Reminds me of the filmclip of a Gotye track named "Bronte". Love it!
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Love that big cat but what is the buz of the brave knight there. Who is that beauty! Honestly with bias I think the tiger is more beautiful. I said BIAS.
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1st, yoΒ΄re a true artist... congrats! i think you are a pure lady that needs to be defended by your huge cat, against men. is that correct? please tell me, or iΒ΄m gonna dieΒ Β lolΒ Β
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It's really interesting to me because I've heard you say that your work is about the psyche. My first thought when looking at this was that it was about a man confronting his demons in relation to his sexuality (sword) and ability to be in relationship with a great woman - the orange cape and orange tiger (and orange title) suggest that the tiger is the man's own projection, his fears about relationship, represented as a massive tiger that stands in the way of the now-elevated and unattainable woman (who has increased in size in proportion to the size of his fear/projection).
But then I thought, seeing as you are a woman, maybe you painted this image not from the perspective of the man, but from the woman, in which case, i wonder if the tiger is her boundary, her challenge, to any possible suitors - and now the title suggests that, this man isn't a strong enough person for her. This would also explain why she is looking away and not at him - she isn't interested, she'd rather be with herself and her tiger.
I had no clue what to make of the branches on her head, I couldn't really link it to anything (maybe innocence?) but someone just mentioned the term "crown chakra" to me in an unrelated conversation and now I guess perhaps this is her temporary crown - she hasn't yet found her king with whom to become a proper queen.
Anyway wonderful work
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That is such a beautiful interpretation on my painting.Β Thank you so much for that!
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I love how striking the tiger is against the blue. Beautiful.
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Gorgeous!!! What a beautifully composed, wonderfully colored piece!!
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Wow -I just now saw the tiny human figure with sword/cape. Totally turned this piece on its head for me!
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I never claimed it wasΒ
How do you know what people's colors are?Β
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OMG this is totally surprising, it is amazing! good work!
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