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mothership

By  Pen Dalton 2017
In this painting, large abstract forms are sited above a smaller similar shape with loose brushwork at the bottom. This suggests to me analogous relationships; those pf a mother hovering protectively over a child and the name given in space fiction to the large, slow moving, safe supply vessel .

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