60 x 45 cm | 23 x 17 in
Subject: Animals
Tags:
Animals,
Shadow,
Confined
Original painting in oil on canvas.
"This painting was made in response to a short story by the Russian writer Siqizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), unsung genius of Soviet literature, was a writer of philosophical, satirical, lyrical phantasmagorias. He has been compared to Kafka, Gogol, Borges and Edgar Allen Poe yet remained unpublished until 1989. The painting depicts Quagga, an extinct sub-species of Zebra, and a character in Krzhizhanovsky's story 'In the Pupil' a meditation on the nature of love. In In the Pupil the narrator sees himself -- or rather: "my miniature likeness" -- in his beloved's eye -- and then gets the whole story from the little creature (who turns out to be surprisingly real -- and not the only one stuck in there)."
Ed Saye’s paintings hold the strange beauty of a world still running its rituals after the meaning has shifted. Figures walk, gather, hold small suns in their hands, unaware of how altered the air has become. The colour hums at a frequency between reverence and re-coding - radiant, hyperreal, irresistible - the saturation dial turned just past natural, where colour starts to behave as energy instead of pigment. His work has evolved with rare coherence, each canvas reorganising itself from within, as though the paint were recalibrating to each new atmosphere - the pigment edging toward another register entirely.
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