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Sirena LaBurn
Onlooker
2020
oil on canvas
CLABS-23347


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8 x 8 inches9 5/16 x 9 5/16 inches$1,200.00

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"These skeletons emerged from the unexpectedly heightened awareness of death brought on by my experiences around first becoming a mother and the birth of my daughter. Savoring the freshness of her new life led inevitably into deep contemplations of my own mortality as well as my daughter’s. The image of the skeleton as a symbol of Death transcends human divisions of wealth, race, and culture, and thus houses the varied specificity with which we think about Death in the visual common ground of a grinning skull that looks, more or less, exactly like the one in your head and mine.

Since the worldwide devastation of Covid-19, the way I view the skeleton imagery in my work began to shift. Death surrounds us in a such way that in our lifetimes was previously unimaginable. We have all been confronted with the inescapability of death, and our limitations as humans to prevent the inevitable. The skeletons oscillate between jester-like figures mocking us all, or simply elements in a landscape, as natural to the landscape as a rock. Just like the rock in the desert, death was here long before us, and will be our legacy long after our time has passed." - Sirena LaBurn


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