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hay bales on parade

Miniature painting - 5.4 x 8.6 cm.

 

Part 10 of "The Fable of the Hay Bales" : watercolor and gouache on 21 discarded paper subway tickets sized with gesso and marble dust.

 

A magnificent set of 21 lusciously-colored rustic winter landscapes featuring hay bales. This collection of miniatures, when properly lined up, and allowing for spacing, occupies over six horizontal feet by about four inches in height.

 

"The Fable of the Hay Bales" is a pictorial narrative comprising 21 individually-titled miniature paintings, as follows:

 

Hay Bale Behind a Scrim

Hay Bale's Soliloquy

Hay Bale Ventures Forth

Meet by the Pond

Two Hay Bales

Hay Bale Smells a Rose

Hay Bales in the Bloom

Three Hay Bales

Four Hay Bales

Hay Bales on Parade

Peace Hay Zippy Love Bales

Sentinels

Hay Bales of Fortune

Hay Bale Hiding

Seekers

Hay Bale Discovered

Hay Bales on the Run

Hay Bales Storm the Barn

The Heavy Holy Hay Bale

The Departure of the Hay Bales

The Lotus Eaters

 

Each landscape is meticulously hand painted to the minutest detail in spectacularly bright colors, encapsulating vast, woodsy vistas in miniature. Collectively, this suite of pictures tells the action-packed, suspenseful story of hay bales in love fighting for freedom in an authoritarian hay-bale society.

 

A unique and enchanting collection incorporating elements of mythology, animism, psychedelica, behavioral psychology, fantasy and legend.

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Uploaded on February 12, 2014
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