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AnyaBoz — Immortality Plague
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Published: 2018-01-31 19:22:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 9959; Favourites: 544; Downloads: 48
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24x36Oil on canvas
This is actually two paintings spliced together, the cat side (Immortality) and the opossum side (Plague). I made the opossum part first and decided to use my lost cat as the subject of a second part.
Interpretation is obviously subjective, but it's a comment on immortality through death. Death is in its own way a sort of immortality because our bodies become part of everything else to continue an endless cycle. It also shows the juxtaposition of pet vs roadkill, normalized death vs glorified death even though we all end up the same. This painting represents a lot of other meanings as well. These are just the most apparent.
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Comments: 24
this is cool (i'm now looking in this gallery) but also . . .
very much sad.
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Good lord your doll work is so excellent but I always forget how amazing your paintings are until there's a new one. I have no words.
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Gah thank youuuu! I would love to paint more, it just takes more time and energy for me haha
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Man I can only imagine! You Room Guardians clearly take a lot of time but seem to be down to a science more-so than a big painting would be. (I feel that way about the little guys I felt for festivals in comparison to the big pieces I have so few of haha)
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Beautiful work! I love this piece and the depth it holds.
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dayum the deep meanings....
I love paintings with deep meanings
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Gorgeous! Just as magnificent and detailed as your sculptures!
I have few questions: What are those plants that look like green roses? Succulents, maybe? Or simply green roses? xd Also, what is that black-white-purple oval on cats belly? And finally, do the species of plants you painted symbolise something specific? I know that chrysanthemums are popular grave decorations in Poland, not sure if in other countries too
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Hey! Sorry for taking forever to respond!
Yes the plants are succulents!
The oval is sort of just a break in space. It's a hole in reality or uncertain possibility.
It's of course open for interpretation, but this is a portrait of my cat who disappeared
so even though he's probably dead, it's still unsure. He forever lives in a state of uncertainty
for me.
The plants were not placed with any symbolic significance.
Thank you for such thought provoking questions though!
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Thank you for the reply! I really like this idea of immortality caused by forever unsureness whether he's dead or alive. In some sense it makes him a Schrodinger's cat xd
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Hahaha yes I suppose you're right
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woah, i didn't know you are so good at painting !!! more, more !
i mean, damn, this is excellent. the description behind it, as well.
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This is a extremely interesting and unique piece, I really like the meanings communicated here.
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I'm sorry about your cat. I've lost animals and that what-if feeling and missing them never seems to leave. Beautiful piece. You are a wizard with oil paints.
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I like to think this represents the rings of a tree, it looks so cool!
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This is amazing. The attention to detail is absolutely stunning. As much as it is a sad piece for me, it is a beautiful piece.
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Such a pro painting, AnyaBoz! My eyes are drawn the most to the cat face and that dark bloody hole, but you did such a good job on the whole thing~
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Wow, this is stunning!! I love how the background(?) looks both like an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole/garden and also kind of like a rug? It has such a homey feeling to it and yet so macabre at the same time. So pretty. <3
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Absolutely in love with this! Especially the subject and chosen animals.
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Love this. Love everything about this. Your pallet choices, your subject choices, the execution, just 
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Wonderful, this comes across as quite Taoist to me.
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