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Mystery of the Human Heart Acrylic Print
by Emily McLaughlin
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Mystery of the Human Heart acrylic print by Emily McLaughlin. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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�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... more
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�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 soa...
About Emily McLaughlin
Animating my art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the equal reality of death entwine. The mix of collage and oil paint is a way for me to assemble an idea out of disparate parts, partly expressed through its process. Collage is a process of collision and re-creation. I appreciate rough, cut edges, the feel of different papers, the build-up of oil paint strokes and ridges. Photos in our media and daily life are an integral part of how we communicate information, ideas, and emotions. Incorporated into...
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