Girl Next Door
acrylic, paper collage om plywood, 2003
acrylic, paper collage om plywood, 2003
Girl Next Door examines how we pass each other in life every day- even live a few feet away without knowing anything about one another. The doe-eyed girl on the left listens lovingly to the artist singing to his paintbrush in the next apartment, the subject of the painting on his easel covering her ears, signifying his misdirected affections. While he longingly paints the beauty next door, she is oblivious of being the subject of his unrequited love, and he is unaware that his love songs tug at her heart. Her teddy bear symbolizes the affections and comfort of a man missing in her life, as the squashed paint tube under the artist's boot becomes a metaphor for the tragic comedy of his situation- as well as a humorous reference to his frustration of unfulfilled physical love.
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