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Na Mic Tíre Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Other
Size: 30 W x 20 H x 1 D in
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About The Artwork
In the Irish language, the term for wolf is 'Mac Tíre' (Mic Tíre/wolves), which literally means "son of the country/land". I just love that. It's evocative of another viewpoint, a pre-industrial, pre-capitalist landscape where fauna are imbued with peer traits, not just exploitable ones, or worse still, characteristics at violent odds with human society itself. · I think it's worth evaluating how our ancestors thought about the land and its inhabitants, and why. In prior times the Irish viewed wolves as neighbors, to be no more "dealt with" than one deals with the rain. It wasn't until the Elizabethan conquests and subsequent colonization efforts that wolves in Ireland became persecuted as adversaries and pests (the last being eradicated there around 1800) that a different viewpoint emerged, one played out similarly around the world - and of which we're still grappling with to this day.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 20 H x 1 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Keelan McMorrow is a self-taught visual artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He employs traditional materials but through unconventional process; entrenched as a teenager in the punk rock of 1990's middle America, Keelan was shaped by the strident, "anything-goes" attitude and die-hard work ethic of DIY subculture. Those experiences and that mindset spill out from the hidden cracks of his paintings today. “The current focus of my work is on flesh as a sort of symbolism, the tearing apart of bodies and limbs as conventional figurative motifs and arriving at something more elemental. I've been juxtaposing these pieces with old tools, implements, animals - anything true that connects deeper aspects of the human condition to its latent chaos, our inherent fears and mortality. In 2016 I lost my brother to a congenital heart defect; all of my work has been sifted through the funnel of that horror since then."
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