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Oil painting of a white, marble-like draped figure leaping against an orange and brown sky, with the number 1939 inscribed on the fabric and jagged flame-like forms below.

Sparkling Since 1939

2013 · Oil on canvas · 207.7 × 265 cm

A marble-white figure caught mid-leap, its drapery whipped up into the sky like a flag catching fire. I kept the body cold and pale against that burning orange, and let "1939" sit right there in the folds of cloth, impossible to miss. Underneath, the ground breaks into jagged flame or rubble, I never quite decided which.

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