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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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(Thinking out loud here...) Anyway, this is a very painterly piece -- entirely different in sensibility from your typical illustrator's approach to your subject. It's abstract to the degree that the viewer (I) really cannot tell what it is. I can guess that it might be a self portrait or a ghostly figure, but that is imagination (because that reading doesn't account for the pale filament going across the frame). And even if that guess is right, I find myself engaged with the tonality, the texture, and the color. It's a much more direct engagement with mood than your other pieces. I encourage you to do more like this.
Oh -- the title -- it makes me focus on two things: first, the "face" and then the tip of the filament, where it ends in the middle of nothing. As if "There's a there there" (to misquote Gertrude Stein). I go back and forth between the face and the emptiness until I finally have to acknowledge that other shadowy face-like thing in the lower right. It seems to be another figure looking up at the "face." And finally, I must disengage before the ghosts of memory come out.
Thank you so much for your elaborate comment. I really appreciate your opinion.
uzivaj