Snafu

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By Laura Fishman
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

80 × 80 × 4 cm

Materials:

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

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2013
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SNAFU is a military slang that stands for the sarcastic expression situation normal: all f@#!d up. It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs. It is typically used in a joking manner to describe something that's working as intended. I thought this name was appropriate for this painting, as I combined different viscosities and mediums to encourage irregularities as they flowed together. As it dried, it revealed a glossy, glowing dramatic surface - with complex craters, crazes and 'fisheyes' caused by the tension of varying surfactants in the merging paint. The colours are white and grey on a beige background, with accents of deep ruby, green-gold and amber. Please note: All coating deformities are not relevant to the overall paint film durability as much as being aesthetic anomalies, so the crazes are really no different in that capacity to a brush stroke, so the painting is archivally sound.

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