Fair Play
Acrylic on wood watercolor paper mounted on wood canvas. Pine frame. 24 x 30”.
This work features two panels from a comic that are taken out of their original context. I was struck by the woman’s expression in each. In the first, she’s totally downcast, utterly despairing. In the scene where she’s firing the laser on her companion, she is joyfully happy! I used the colors symbolically here. Although the man seems slightly regretful at whatever is causing her suffering on the surface, the vibrant red of his joy at her pain betrays him.
Additionally the colors of her sadness are echoed in the laser itself—the tool for reclaiming her joy.
Turnabout is fair play!