Mystery of the Human Heart
by Emily McLaughlin
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24.000 x 30.000 inches
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Title
Mystery of the Human Heart
Artist
Emily McLaughlin
Medium
Painting - Collage And Oil Paint On Canvas
Description
�The Mystery of the Human Heart� started as an exploration of our human desire to know and understand the mysteries of being- how we construct systems of learning and knowledge, how we use technology and ritual. The original title was �The Study of Mysteries: Mystologia.� Central to the work is an image of a human heart alive in a medical transport box, connected to machines, in the rush to an organ donation recipient. The physical reality of the wet, shining heart with its lifeline blood vessels and silicone tubes, combined with all of our myths and metaphors of what the heart means, demanded to be a painting.
My process of layering down photos altered by cutting and painting, then incorporating all in ridges and details of more paint, means each painting takes months to complete. In the time between beginning this painting and its finish, its meanings grew and shifted, becoming also symbols of love and longing, grief and confusion, the emotional heart, the heart that soars and thunders and eventually stops.
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May 30th, 2014
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