Impressions of an
Invertible Desert Feast
This painting has many dual images and is framed within
an illusionistic window frame.
The continents are reversed with water filling the
shapes usually taken by land and vice versa. In the bottom window
pane within the inverted image of South America is an image that
appears to be a woman bending down to bath in the water, but is
also an image of the first two fingers of the hand with the thumb
tucked under it. The image is repeated to the left as it breaks
thru a canvas. The food in the foreground is a slice of a peach
with partial image of the continents on it, and apple made of
rock with the continents engraved into it and an egg which is
just coming out of its broken shell but is already fried from
the desert heat.
The top window pane has a woman's face formed from
the elements, the clouds form her hair with the moon as her eye
and mountains reflected in the water forming her mouth. Another
image of the two fingers and thumb/woman is repeated within North
America's water and the double image from another painting (see
Continental Simulacrum) is found in the lower right hand corner
of the top window pane.
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