Add Flipping the bird and wolfsbane and what do you get?
This painting starts with the wolfsbane flower which symbolizes hatred.
This guy is using a gesture of hate.
This guy is kinda crazy.
Sooo, is he hating the hatred? He’s saying you shouldn’t hate by hating. If he’s hating the hatred then is he in reality the object of his own hatred and therefore gesturing to himself in a paradoxical infinite loop? If so then what does that mean?
Is the gesture AT the flower? FOR the flower? WITH the flower? Is it aimed at the viewer and he’s holding the flower to emphasize hate? Or showing that that what the flower symbolizes is what he hates? Did he take the flower from the viewer and now using it as emphasis or is he going to destroy it? Or is it all the opposite of those things because he’s crazy?
That’s up to you to decide.
- Subject Matter: Surreal
- Collections: People, Surreal Series