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Breaking Free

By Andy Farr 2022
Five years ago Andy painted “Carousel”, this painting showed a carousel horse crashed to earth, lying over a ground of looming, billowing charcoal infused darkness. The down after the high. This piece was created within a series exploring my own responses to his father’s bipolar condition. This sister piece to the first carousel shows a more positive, optimistic outlook. The carousel horse instead of falling to earth is escaping, galloping away, freeing
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