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"Process of Elimination"
23 ¾ x 14"
Acrylic on Board, 2009
House Finches
$4,700
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"Process of Elimination" began when an interesting color variation of the house finch made an appearance at my bird feeder. Male house finches are typically some variation of red, but this one was clear yellow orange. I began paying closer attention to their variations, and found that I could pick out birds that were true red, magenta, watermelon, and salmon too. The idea here was to show an array of differently colored males all presided over by the typically drab female. The males may have the color, but it’s up to her to pick her mate, to resist or accept their affections, hence her placement on the top of the pyramid. The stylized and even "unfinished" areas of the composition (note the one bird that remains partly a pencil drawing and under painting) further this theme of process and selectivity. As a helplessly iconoclastic sort, in my version of the story, the odd man out emerges triumphant, and the female flies off into the sunset with her uncommonly orange companion.
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