Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Contemporary Painting
Medium : oil on linen
Dimensions : 56 x 71 cm 


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“This piece is about art. I wanted to make a symbolic painting about something that is both precious to me and at continual risk. If you compare a painting from say 1880 to one from the present you will often see a huge discrepancy which could be seen as the presence or absence of soul, something innate which is achieved through craft and openness. This is often now compensated for by something more cynical, ambivalent or throwaway. In the painting the infant is a symbol of this innate innocence and potential, without layers and within nature. Which is something to be cherished, yet no one is there to guard and protect it from the flies which contaminate this purity. The infant is at further risk of being drowned or washed away by the waters of ambivalence. This suggests something about the digital age that we find ourselves in and highlights something of what we must protect.”