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Fish Can Fly
J R Wells
My goal for this painting was to create a piece with many layers, physically as well as contextually.Using many layers of under-painting, I built up the sky, features of the landscape and fish figures into each other, so that each element is very much connected with the others.The content, for me at least, started in a straightforward manner: a desert landscape, reminiscent of my hometown, Albuquerque, with a touch of surrealist aesthetic: koi fish swimming throughout the sky, and perhaps the desert sand as well.It may be that this piece is a representational depiction of my current and impermanent home, but it displays a longing for another possible world where fish can fly.
