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February 26, 2008
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24" x 24"
acrylic, oil on canvas

I waited to do this piece, even though originally it should have corresponded with "Young Skin and How To See Light," because I couldn't then do what I've now done: show you just how superficially analytical I've become, so much so that often I create something better than the original...

If that doesn't sound fair, I don't mean it negatively; instead this neurotic way of seeing things--and I mean the coexistence of illusion and real, an obsessive focus to block out the ugly, the ugly to cover the mundane, etc--is sometimes a necessary means of seeing. "Reality" (from the perspective of an adventurous 19-year old) often presses itself up in your face and envelopes you in its sweaty folds and clammy grip. And without something to love, or something else to focus on, how do you 'get through' the mundane or even unpleasant thing that has positioned itself in front of you?

I've had to realize it's just there: the illusion of expanse, of a new frontier to chart out, and I look for it and live in it and watch it undulate up and down, from yellow to blue, across fluorescents and pastels and into the darkest blacks. Then it's over, and I'm done, and you (this time really "you," and not "I" disguised as "you") get something like what you see above.

Anyway, enjoy.
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Old Skin and How To See Light by *winst is an interesting way to see the reality, which actually looks the way we show it you but, but is not the actual reality ( Suggested by `cybergranny and Featured by `archanN )
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~gwarz Aug 15, 2011
i wish i could meet you! your pieces speak of wisdom. enough for me to risk sounding so stupid. i wish to meet the personality behind this great piece of work because i know it will just enhance the experience even more.

i swear im not a creep. ha. just really moved by your work.
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~gwarz Aug 15, 2011
no words!!!!
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~thepetiteolaya Jul 10, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Jenny Saville

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Mood: Joy ~dauntdebriss Jul 25, 2010
beautiful painting. and id rather like to take this time to say Thank you for attaching such a discriptive comment about it. Getting if only a glimpse into the minds eye of a creator is a vital tool to progressing in ones own art. to hear how others do something especially when its somthing veering away from the mundane is really important!! great work keep it up!

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~albatrash Dec 14, 2009
Weird and good.
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~kitetokishikarocks Sep 30, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
i dont quite understand it but
i like the human figure
although i dont understand the part his body ends...
not on the corner of canvas
but the other corner

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~Charlie-Temperton Jun 24, 2009
I was just looking at your gallery and I was like hmm this guy should have a DD.. And here it is. Awesome stuff.
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~winst Aug 14, 2009  Professional General Artist
Haha. And justice is served. Thank you!

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~geduliss Apr 28, 2009
wonderful idea and work!

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"Of course, everything looks bad if you remember it"

HOMER SIMPSON
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~TheWholeTruth Mar 27, 2009
What a delightfully creepy old man...daring the viewer to come closer! It's right up there with some of Lucian Freud's paintings of Leigh Bowery. Every time a certain friend comes to visit, she says of a print of one I have, "I can't understand why you want that fat naked guy hanging on your wall." What can I say? I dig non-traditional "beauty."
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