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Leaving New York II Painting in Acrylics and Gouache

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Leaving New York II Painting in Acrylics and Gouache...'What's the Story' ?

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Jameela Bi

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'Modified bodies, giving aesthetic hope of utopias based in Consumerist deliverance?'

Is that a possible story?

Lol, peace be upon you.

Paul Shipley

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Ha Yes...Indeed... or perhaps it describes our rush to fill a void of the real person. the now-gone ancestor,  friend, lover whose body formed the concavities of the city. In a sense all that is left is the  respective platonic ideals or singular simulacrums of  people, we have, if you like only their residue remaining after a distillation or an evaporation of sorts. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, so too can we not exist without mementos or lingering traces of those modified bodies, which delude us with their aesthetic hope of, as you so eloquently observe, utopias based in Consumerist deliverance.
ROSIE Rushton-Stone

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I always see the wrong thing in paintings, unless it is just one very obvious item.

In this I saw the tiny little stage show going on in the cab behind her, and drifted off thinking about how much I would like to see another pixie.