La Joie de Vivre

Happy New Year! Here is my first artwork of 2023.

I keep being attracted to circular canvasses, after first seeing one at White Box, Publika, by famed Malaysian artist Tajuddin Ismail.

This third circular canvas, 150 cm in diameter is a direct expression of the emotions I experienced while painting it and reflecting on 2022 as it just came to a close.

I am so grateful for the love of so many people. I have been blessed by so many gifts, in the midst of what was still a challenging year at the tail end of the COVID pandemic. Hence why it expresses my 'joie de vivre' ~ my exuberant enjoyment of life.

So to all who contributed, thank you.

It is the third artwork embedding 'smart dust', the pioneering invention of Native Digital, a Swiss start-up which developed an RFID technology that is embedded in the artwork itself. Fifty micro-RFID's (just 1 mm by 1 mm by 0.5 mm) are embedded in the paint and create a digital DNA for the artwork that will for ever ensure its authenticity and traceability. That DNA then permits for the artwork to be recorded in a specific NFT.

For more on this new technology, visit www.ndpa.ch