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Thomas Brodhead – American, born 1968 – Bird Stand –2023 – oil on canvas – 11" x 14" x 1.5" (27.94cm x 35.56cm x 3.81cm)

A bird looks back upon unrequited love, or perhaps upon a heartthrob whose Instagram filters mean nothing on a cartoon canvas. Intimations of love bombing lie under foot, perhaps swept away like stones on an icy curling rink as the subject exits to undiscovered passions behind the green door. There are no daisy chains here to conjugate your pleasure: You complete me? I complete you not, indeed.

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