Hiding in jungle estuaries, aboard Elena and Meg’s yacht, Boadicea, this canvas started out as a protective barrier and aid to survival. Over the years nature sculpted it into this amazing expression of life and struggle. Elena and Meg recognized it for what it is and offer it to the world or the appreciative collector or museum for the absurdly low price of half a million US dollars.
Years of creation: 2019 through 2023.
Material: biochemistry on canvas.
Dimensions: 59 inches/150 cm x 90 inches/230 cm
Offered unframed.
Price: 500,000 USD
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Four years in the making, from deep in the tropic of Cancer, the very chemistry of life and laws of nature which define our universe have conspired to reach out through this stunning work of living art. Their message: Life in exile leaves its mark. Life itself leaves the stain. In this case it is the stain of freedom. In fact, Elena has signed the Russian word for freedom as a proxy for the artist which is the universe and its physical laws that came to create us.
This extraordinary canvas is truly nature expressing herself through the incredibly rare convergence of time, space, physical laws, and the love of two people from across enemy lines, forced into exile to be together.
Highlights
Anguish of exile
Tears fall from a heavily lidded eye. Nature herself looking at humanity, the latest extinction level event, through this canvas.
Eye of the Storm
Some process or competing organism scoured clean this section of the canvas. The shape is reminiscent of the hurricanes and storms endured by exiles. Not only was the existing mycological life wiped out, but just like a storm scouring clean an environment, life can begin again.
Stone ax
Reminiscent and reflective of the first stone tools, this biochemical image speaks of self-sufficiency, strength and survival of the fittest.
Tears of Russia
Parallel and converging lines. Friends, families, lovers, torn apart. A dark cloud trailing tentacles? Tears? Rivers of blood? Or Elena’s uncried tears for the country she left behind? That now, more than ever, crumbles into an ocean of lives and love lost forever.
Svoboda signature
Signature of the artist, by proxy.