Zebra Crossing

Painting

2022

30cm x 20 cm

$250

Audio Description:

Artist statement:

A black and white striped zebra is standing still on a grey and white zebra crossing.

The zebra crossing is in the desert, which takes up the bottom two thirds of the canvas. It is painted with orange and textured sand made from dirt and sand mixed in with molding paste. The sky above the desert is red with an obelisk shaped planet. It is painted in black with a white edge to signify that the planet is in solar eclipse. No two zebras have the same stripes. Just like a fingerprint they are unique to that one animal.

The orange colour of the desert broken by the black and white appearance of the eclipse. It is also broken by the black and white of the zebra, the black and white colours of the obelisk planet. and the imagined sound of the zebras hooves on the crossing.

Without the big bang, you would not have the zebra, or the crossing, or the planet, or the obelisk. If it wasn’t for the sun, the zebra wouldn’t have its stripes as the pigment in the zebras stripes is due to the sun.

We are all space dust.

 

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