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The story is about relationship problems. The man is washed under a wave of water and disdain caused by the woman's wake. In the background, another woman is marking the event.

Here I tried to break the concrete idea of human form having just two arms. It sounds silly, but shows that people have many options when choosing gestures to communicate with others and how gestures change as responses dictate. The muddy colors surrounding the large face are expressing the lady's distressed 'fur coat' state of mind. The oil pastel was blended with paint thinner on brush. The background purple mountain anchors the other images and was done to mimic classic oil paintings <> throwing old traditional references into abstract work serves as abstraction but also 'legitimizes' the piece by footnoting.

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The story is about relationship problems. The man is washed under a wave of water and disdain caused by the woman's wake. In the background, another woman is marking the event. Here I tried to break the concrete idea of human form having just two arms. It sounds silly, but shows that people have many options when choosing gestures to communicate with others and how gestures change as responses dictate. The muddy colors surrounding the large face are expressing the lady's distressed 'fur coat' state of mind. The oil pastel was blended with paint thinner on brush. The background purple mountain anchors the other images and was done to mimic classic oil paintings <> throwing old traditional references into abstract work serves as abstraction but also 'legitimizes' the piece by footnoting.