LANNY QUARLES
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Quick Silver
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Medium:
Edition: limited
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Digital
collage printed on watercolor paper
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| Reference
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quarles-021
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| Size:
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20x16
inches
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With
crown cut from a Carlos Merida painting sporting an enigmatic emblem, a
shirtless adolecent holds something tautly on a chain. The boy's
silvery skin seems to reflect the blue wall of writing behind him which
contains two stories; one in a 'new courier' type writer text, the
other hand written in blue ball point pen ink suggesting that this is a
document from decades ago. Around the boy's head and covering his face
is what looks to be an oily red mechanic's rag with three small round
holes cut into it for eyes and mouth that becomes a kind of mask
calling up stories such as the Man in the Iron Mask as it seems more a
punishment or censure than a play thing.
To the right an ostrich peeks from around a corner and we can tell that
there is some sort of landscape behind it but it is so blurred that it
remains merely a presence of background.
The
title Quicksilver and the boy's metalic color tells us that the boy
must be quicksilver which is the name for Mercury so named for the
liquid nature of this metal by the alchemists of the middle ages who
believed that, through alchemical processes, mercury could be turned
into gold once purified.
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We know of course that this is a metaphor for spiritual transformation,
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