The Joker Revealed
2016
acrylic on canvas
91 cm
x
45.5 cm
Signed lower right
The birds are Java Sparrows.
Sylvie has this balancing clown in her toy box. They have always amused me even when I was a
child I played with one made of metal. Sylvie’s
is a modern plastic version. The clown is quite tricky to balance particularly
in the standing up straight position. In
the original he has 2 balls at the end of the beam that you must adjust
carefully to make it balance. I wanted to use this as a metaphor for how man is
becoming increasingly responsible for the environment natural forces as such
have been sidelined by our endeavours. The man in the painting hangs on to
balance the environment for the "Java sparrows" egg to survive. GT
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