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Sunday, February 7, 2016

2015/ Green-leaf butterflies

Green-leaf Butterflies was commissioned by Mark Antonelli as a present for his soon-to-be wife Danielle Rizzo. 
Originally, the idea was to present a woman with her back to the observer, quietly looking through a window. In the process, I included a gentleman facing the viewer, who is looking at her. All this underlines the act of observation, echoed by the viewer watching looking at her, and watching her through a large mirror standing on the wooden floor. The observer my be located outside the house, possibly in the same world the green-leaf butterflies inhabit, and maybe, the woman is not only looking at them, but at us.
The piece incorporates Art-Deco themes with abstractionism. The strokes of pastel are curvilineal traces which add movement to the quiet static moment, bringing out the inner feelings of the characters. 
The burst of color happen to the right, inside the mirror, where the woman's intimate moment is captured in a vignette, and to the left, where the man is sitting observing. 
The main figures are separated in different realities, only connected by the flower of the mirror frame touching the frame of the chair where the man is siting. 
The man is dressed in a suit, while the woman only carries a long tank top. 
To the man, she is an object of desire framed in the art-deco flower-theme of the mirror. The woman, on the other hand, is is liberated and enjoying the outside natural world, as she is also nested in a natural-themed environment.

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