Small Plastic Baby
Oil on gessoed board
Oil on gessoed board
150x150mm
December 29, 30, 06
I've been meaning to paint this for a while now. I guess it's one of those little plastic figures from a child's doll house or something. It appealed to me, the way it sat bathed in the light, casting shadows. I guess it has many connotations. It could be Moses, or the infant Jesus, or just a plastic baby... My daughter, who thinks it looks decidedly disturbing, suggested I call it "Vitruvian Baby" after the famous Vitruvian Man. I played around with different light sources and directions and in some lights it had multiple shadows which gave it a kind of Krishna appearance. It also occured to me it was like kids making angels in the snow.