Heliotrope
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Artwork Info
Thomas Brodhead – American, born 1968 – Heliotrope –2019 – oil on canvas – 24" x 36" x 0.75" (60.96cm x 91.44cm x 1.91cm)
$2175
Ekphrasis
Alien flowers in a simple vase—or is it a wig stand gone awry?—follow the lead of a triad of stars in a parallel world of unforgiving trigonometry. While the shameless plants bare their irregular polygony to a cool-bright sky, a photophobic changing screen seeks refuge from the full spectrum of light in a pall of night limned with constellations of repeating trapezoids. The suggestion of an infinite plane may offer hope to Flat Earthers that they may one day inhabit a world devoid of topographic variety, but Heliotrope seems more to suggest that GMO-laden plant foods might produce Frankenflowers of formidable geometry.