Size: 48 x 36 on board
Medium: Resin sand, white flake, acrylic, plaster of paris, Garnet stone, sea shells, silica sand
The work is based on a few of my own interpretations of Salvador Dali and surrealism. I was interested in his treatment of time and water. This work is symbolic of the pathologies and consequences of conformity.
The single all-seeing eye depicts the state or church; whichever the citizen wishes to worship. This is the cause of the conformity.
The use of variations of blue symbolizes the ocean (water-self). The purpose of the blue was to depict the human as a ship at sea. The measurements of direction and course are relative, and the issue of calm water or storm is secondary to the utility of having to conform to each wave in order to survive.
The enema stance of the arm is a reference to how the eye is all-knowing. The thing that we conform to is both internal and external; sometimes at the same time.
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