Ikebana series #5 – Diptych
This painting went with the previous as a diptych.
This time I tried to play with sensory perceptions by using contrasting colors, shadows and reflections. The chair is both dark and bright, the vertical lines give it a sense of depth while at the same time bringing forward its central part where one eye is located. It’s a little bit like how we see things in dreams. It’s a parallel reality that we see but that is not really “there”. The other eye is hidden and what we can see instead is the reflection of it, a simplified version of it anyway.
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