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sink or swim

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W 77.20cm x H 77.20cm x D 0.20cm

USD $200.00

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  • About this sink or swim

    Detail

    Medium

    Art Prints/ Multiples/ Digital

    Edition

    Limited Edition 25

    Year

    2022

    Sign

    Artists' printed signature

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    "(S) ink or swim" is a tribute to the hard life that salary men lead in Tokyo during the summer. Commuting in packed trains, just getting to work feels like more than half the job. Day after day, it can wear a person out. The scene in the artwork is at the end of the day and the end of a Tokyo City train route.

    It is a hard regime to follow to make a living, but young people are full of energy and, like a fish swimming upstream, go about their daily lives with vigor.

  • About this artist

    Skyler

    Skyler

    Canada

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    Concept

    Graphic arts stands in the middle of photography, painting, and language. It borrows from all three, but what gifts does it give back? About cinema, Fellini suggested that if you are moved by a particular film, you don't need an explanation. And if you are not spellbound, no explanation can suffice.

    Skyler's approach to his work is mysterious in the same way. He draws from different painting traditions and uses his own photographs, acrylic, oil, pastels and digital painting to create an aesthetic experience with humor, wonder, and social commentary.

    The artist often creates digital paintings in the magic realism tradition to catch and sustain the viewer's attention. He intends each work to be crafted carefully and, hopefully, resonate on a semantic level. Moving pixels around the screen to combine digital art and painting, there is much to enjoy and ponder!

    A representative work is "Bellflower, Love Awaited," a graphic art composition with fine paint stroke detailing. The composition size is A3.

    Bellflowers are common all over the Northern Hemisphere. Accordingly, the flowers can be found in Japan, where the artist lives, but the flower is also widespread in Europe and North America.

    The flower usually has a symbolic association with gratitude, constancy, support, or romance. As such, Skyler uses the image as a motif to pay tribute to all those who hold on to their love, even when the loved one is far away in place or time.

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