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Still Life

By Susan Williams 2018
The work is a display of dried or preserved banana skins, naturally blackened, arranged on the wall using pins. Associations include a floral arrangement, classical oriental ink and brush painting, possibly text, a specimen display, alien-like spiders, insects, something unnatural, rotting yet harmonious, repulsive yet alluring, duality, a reflection on decay and preservation.
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