Erik Minter American, b. 1979
OUTside the line, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 51 cm
Signed on the back with artwork information. On canvas the Artist uses a black wax pencil, archival, in order not to degrade the canvas.
Copyright The Artist
This painting conjures up the mood and state of the current time we are living in. Uncertainty, is an understatement. To be able to be outside, breathing, listening to nature...
This painting conjures up the mood and state of the current time we are living in. Uncertainty, is an understatement. To be able to be outside, breathing, listening to nature and contemplating one's own life and when things will get back to some kind of normality. The figure is a girl, laying within a 6 foot lined circle (something that has been introduced in many parks across cities and states). The objective; to help enforce people towards keeping distant from one another within public spaces. Her head appears to be laying just above or past the man-made circle, almost not realising her daring position with exposure to a potential virus. Her body shown relaxed, at calming ease, painted in a wet-on-wet fashion, dissolving into the grass. Almost wanting to test her fate, her actions are a representation of the basic human urge and need for connection, the environment that surrounds her, or the stranger who may be in the neighbouring quarantine circle. Life as we know it has changed and being grounded is a way to listen and feel the vibration of the earth that we exist on.