Ran Ortner
oil on canvas
66" x 96"
2016
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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Interesting... I'm not sure how it's applicable though.
I realize that I left this part out of my citation above... Arsenic is found in prawns I guess, which live in the ocean. Beyond that, I'm not sure either, but the work is called element 33, and element 33 is arsenic.
Perhaps it's a comment on suicide or perhaps the drudgery of common life, or perhaps the fear invoked by seeing nothing but water. That's just me though, that's what I thought about as I looked at this work.
Edit: re-reading my citation above, I realize I left out the part where prawns are a major source of Arsenic.
I see Ran Ortner only paints these ocean scenes and element is just one of his ways of titling them. You can see more of them on his website here .
Oh, ok. Thanks.