Oil paiting. A woman with octopus tentacle hair in a purple dress combs herself with a seashell before a mirror, while a toad watches from the vanity table among pots of cosmetics and hair brushes. They are surrounded by greenery. In the distance, billowing clouds and an agricultural landscape.

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I’m trying to skim the line between beautiful and unsettling, even liminal, if I can. A non-being in a non-place that reminds you of something you think you may know but can never quite fully grasp. Something from a dream of a dream.

With this painting I think I may have reached my goal, at least in small part.
“You only paint monsters” someone said after looking at this.
Yes. I paint monsters, too.
But is she a monster?

Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm

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