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“The Summer of Barbie and Oppenheimer”, It was such a hot summer of 2023 all over the Planet and for some reason the movie studios decided to release both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” together. This made for a mad dash to the cool movie houses still open and it was hugely successful. I saw them both a week a part. First “Barbie” then “Oppenheimer”. My painting is seemingly a departure from my Animal, Mystical and Sacred Icons, but underneath they all exist in the same space that my mind goes to when commenting on the existence of the Sacredness of Life. Linda Carter of “Wonder Woman” said it best, and I paraphrase here, “Barbie was invented after the Atom Bomb” My own thought “Two sides of the same coin”. To my mind both are travesties to the existence of Life. One, unimaginable devastation, and the other a plastic version of a human being. I wondered how much of what we find acceptable is because the unacceptable has been taken for granted. Generations have grown up with the possibility of a nuclear war whilst their children played with their new Barbie outfits. Couldn’t the USA have taken all those talents that developed the Atomic bomb in the 1940’s during WWII to create something else, something more benign to help end the War? We take it for “Granted” that it was the only way.
In my painting an atomic explosion comes out of the top of Barbie’s head, that is also surrounded by Pink flowers, she herself has a mask on, her gaze is direct and a bit intense as the sweat or tears runs down her cheek and brow. It represents my own reaction to both cinematic releases as well as the troubled times we live in NOW.
This image has been a huge success for me already, as customers are drawn to it in a big way.
My Collage can be hung through decorative hole at top, or with a bit of ribbon or string on a simple nail. Large collage 11.5″x 6.75″ Small collage 6.25″x 4.5″
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