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mothership
By
Pen Dalton
2017
![Xuq8gktab0uk00ccz3lsq](https://axis-arts.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/user-uploads/user-12027/xuq8gktab0uk00ccz3lsq.jpg?w=600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1709382564&s=db1b3502002847f5406c4fd5c4868f00)
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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