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The time I've spent in the studio recently was an effort to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand this. For the first time in many years, these works were made without the\u003cbr\u003econsideration of an audience. They were made as a part of my examination, and their\u003cbr\u003eexistence is a derivation of that process.\u003cbr\u003e        As much as I have told myself: our masks are off, we can shake hands, hug and\u003cbr\u003etrust – I find I have arrived in an environment that is in many ways more isolating, more\u003cbr\u003efractured, and more polarized than the world I closed my apartment door on in 2020.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the anxiety of the pandemic is all but gone, the disassociation remains. The light\u003cbr\u003ehearted and casual acquaintances I once had are now, potentially, hard lined allies or\u003cbr\u003eenemies. Those amicable disagreements and debates have been replaced by extreme and cemented positions. There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. Despite the normalcy of day to day life, there are subtle things at play here that continue to keep many of us guarded and isolated, and prevent us from re-establishing the connections that existed in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e       The prices of the pieces in this exhibit are all numeric palindromes; sequences that\u003cbr\u003eare the same in forward and reverse. This was a simple way for me to express that we\u003cbr\u003ehad started a sequence of events, ill prepared and over confident, and quickly reverted to a previous level of arrogance. I.E: a numeric sequence that changes and simply reverts. The sequence literally follows the same deviation in reverse to arrive back where it began. It's a loop.\u003cbr\u003e       There seems a collective sense of exhaustion that has been exploited and has\u003cbr\u003edivided people. Overwhelmed, there are increasing undertones of resignation. In our\u003cbr\u003ehaste to move on, we have failed to address some critical effects of this pandemic. 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The time I've spent in the studio recently was an effort to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand this. For the first time in many years, these works were made without the\u003cbr\u003econsideration of an audience. They were made as a part of my examination, and their\u003cbr\u003eexistence is a derivation of that process.\u003cbr\u003e        As much as I have told myself: our masks are off, we can shake hands, hug and\u003cbr\u003etrust – I find I have arrived in an environment that is in many ways more isolating, more\u003cbr\u003efractured, and more polarized than the world I closed my apartment door on in 2020.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the anxiety of the pandemic is all but gone, the disassociation remains. The light\u003cbr\u003ehearted and casual acquaintances I once had are now, potentially, hard lined allies or\u003cbr\u003eenemies. Those amicable disagreements and debates have been replaced by extreme and cemented positions. There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. 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There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. Despite the normalcy of day to day life, there are subtle things at play here that continue to keep many of us guarded and isolated, and prevent us from re-establishing the connections that existed in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e       The prices of the pieces in this exhibit are all numeric palindromes; sequences that\u003cbr\u003eare the same in forward and reverse. This was a simple way for me to express that we\u003cbr\u003ehad started a sequence of events, ill prepared and over confident, and quickly reverted to a previous level of arrogance. I.E: a numeric sequence that changes and simply reverts. The sequence literally follows the same deviation in reverse to arrive back where it began. It's a loop.\u003cbr\u003e       There seems a collective sense of exhaustion that has been exploited and has\u003cbr\u003edivided people. Overwhelmed, there are increasing undertones of resignation. In our\u003cbr\u003ehaste to move on, we have failed to address some critical effects of this pandemic. 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There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. 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The time I've spent in the studio recently was an effort to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand this. For the first time in many years, these works were made without the\u003cbr\u003econsideration of an audience. They were made as a part of my examination, and their\u003cbr\u003eexistence is a derivation of that process.\u003cbr\u003e        As much as I have told myself: our masks are off, we can shake hands, hug and\u003cbr\u003etrust – I find I have arrived in an environment that is in many ways more isolating, more\u003cbr\u003efractured, and more polarized than the world I closed my apartment door on in 2020.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the anxiety of the pandemic is all but gone, the disassociation remains. The light\u003cbr\u003ehearted and casual acquaintances I once had are now, potentially, hard lined allies or\u003cbr\u003eenemies. Those amicable disagreements and debates have been replaced by extreme and cemented positions. There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. 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All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. 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There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. 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The time I've spent in the studio recently was an effort to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand this. For the first time in many years, these works were made without the\u003cbr\u003econsideration of an audience. They were made as a part of my examination, and their\u003cbr\u003eexistence is a derivation of that process.\u003cbr\u003e        As much as I have told myself: our masks are off, we can shake hands, hug and\u003cbr\u003etrust – I find I have arrived in an environment that is in many ways more isolating, more\u003cbr\u003efractured, and more polarized than the world I closed my apartment door on in 2020.\u003cbr\u003eWhile the anxiety of the pandemic is all but gone, the disassociation remains. The light\u003cbr\u003ehearted and casual acquaintances I once had are now, potentially, hard lined allies or\u003cbr\u003eenemies. Those amicable disagreements and debates have been replaced by extreme and cemented positions. There is an undercurrent of tension that lies beneath the surface of many seemingly inconsequential social interactions. It feels like dancing on thin ice.\u003cbr\u003e       This is life in a post-truth world; where we are inundated with information and\u003cbr\u003edisinformation, where the structures and institutions that we once looked to as arbiters of the truth are either behind paywalls, or the subject of conspiracy theories. It's a natural progression. When you can no longer tell what is fact and what is fiction, then everyone and everything is suspect. The characters in these images are mired in alpha numeric strands. These strands are all the same 5 sequences. I chose to do this because repetition creates the illusion of credibility. Hence, if you repeat the same lie enough, it becomes the truth. Even if this is some cryptic code that you don't understand, the pattern is recognized. In a post-truth world, all patterns are suspect.\u003cbr\u003e       We also seem to have exited the pandemic at about the same time as technology\u003cbr\u003edecided to determine that humans were becoming obsolete. That, indeed, the miserable\u003cbr\u003etasks of folding laundry, filing taxes, and taking out the trash would continue to require\u003cbr\u003eyour participation. However, art and literature and music, and all the things that are a\u003cbr\u003erespite to the tedium of modern life, can now be made without you. All the knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof 10,000 years had been fed to a silicon wafer that is now bigger, better, and smarter\u003cbr\u003ethan you.\u003cbr\u003e       While we all sat home, mostly alone, questioning our life choices during the\u003cbr\u003epandemic and vowing to reprioritize, re-evaluate and live our best lives, those\u003cbr\u003easpirations evaporated quickly under the increased financial pressures of housing\u003cbr\u003einsecurity and manufactured inflation.\u003cbr\u003e        Throughout this period, the climate crisis has also been chugging along as an\u003cbr\u003eexistential threat that remains to be adequately addressed. We are literally sitting on our hands while the world becomes less and less inhabitable\u003cbr\u003e       And – as if right on cue – every crisis has an autocratic despot waiting in the\u003cbr\u003ewings with promises: to quell your fear, to fix everything and, of course, to find a\u003cbr\u003escapegoat to blame. Hate is an effective tool to distract people from a world view, and\u003cbr\u003eforce them to focus on the “other” across the border or down the street. This is the post pandemic world we arrived in and it is not 2019. All the while, H5N1 is sitting in the\u003cbr\u003eshadows posing an even greater (potentially) threat than Covid-19, while politicians\u003cbr\u003eargue about transgender bathrooms and immigration. It's as if we have learned nothing.\u003cbr\u003e       This body of work was a way for me to spend some time alone, creating and\u003cbr\u003econsidering all the voids that still exist as a way for me to understand myself and what\u003cbr\u003eothers might be experiencing. While the pandemic has ended, the implications of it have not. Despite the normalcy of day to day life, there are subtle things at play here that continue to keep many of us guarded and isolated, and prevent us from re-establishing the connections that existed in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e       The prices of the pieces in this exhibit are all numeric palindromes; sequences that\u003cbr\u003eare the same in forward and reverse. This was a simple way for me to express that we\u003cbr\u003ehad started a sequence of events, ill prepared and over confident, and quickly reverted to a previous level of arrogance. I.E: a numeric sequence that changes and simply reverts. The sequence literally follows the same deviation in reverse to arrive back where it began. It's a loop.\u003cbr\u003e       There seems a collective sense of exhaustion that has been exploited and has\u003cbr\u003edivided people. Overwhelmed, there are increasing undertones of resignation. In our\u003cbr\u003ehaste to move on, we have failed to address some critical effects of this pandemic. I have no intention of ending this diatribe with some overly optimistic platitude or some\u003cbr\u003esuperficial remedy. I am simply observing it.\u003cbr\u003eEddie Colla\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Eddie Colla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44373749203121,"sku":null,"price":985.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7574\/files\/Black-Tress-Paint-Red-Skies-Sized-eddie-colla.jpg?v=1758193735"},{"product_id":"the-stain-of-vacant-angels-original","title":"The Stain of Vacant Angels - Original","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Stain of Vacant Angels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e60cm X 80CM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixed Media on wood Panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is from the exhibition \"Lest We Forget\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text written on the piece is transcribed below:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stain of Vacant 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the wrong remedies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLike children, we fought and threw temper tantrums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eParts of us died – the good parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTime stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis had never happened to us before,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eand likely might not again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eParts of us were cut off, and have not grown back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe buried the victims,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eand carried around the resentment of our financial losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis went on for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe were unprepared for eventualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt wasn't cost effective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFailures can be opportunities,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eshould you learn from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOne day on the west coast of America,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ethe sun never came up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe had actually stopped tomorrow from coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe stared into the red sky, slack jawed and awe struck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eStaring our death in the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn that darkness, the weight of consequence was crushing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe sun eventually returned,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eand the pandemic subsided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe went back to jobs we hate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWe started our cars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBegan removing people from their homes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eand let 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Silver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e72x36 inches (183x91.5 cm) when stretched.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAerosol on Canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eI occasionally make a new canvas of this image as a ritual. It's to remind myself. It's also to continue, despite the current state of affairs to provide some inspiration regarding what's possible and to remind people that rules are merely guidelines and it's really your call as to which ones you choose to adhere to. I generally hold on to them until I feel it is a good time to put this back into the world. Given the past 2 weeks with a new American president, I felt something inspiring and hopeful was in order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis particular version is on a reflective metallic silver background. Because of it's reflective quality, it changes, depending on where the viewer is standing and the light source. This is why I made the animated GIF to simulate that effect. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eddie Colla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45122039382193,"sku":"","price":7000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7574\/files\/Animation-2FW-eddie-colla.gif?v=1758193528"},{"product_id":"navigation","title":"\"Navigation\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNavigation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e50 x 50 cm (19.7 X19.7 inches)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMixed media on wood panel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe photographic source of these images were created during the Covid 19 Pandemic. For all the obvious reason many of us were in a constant state of balancing all the disruptions, stress and events. 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