Today on Mistigram, another fabulous painting by @delphinehennelly from MIST1116, celebrating International Women’s Day for a week by exhausting this suite of woman-painted women, strongarming their way into this realm of computer art courtesy of their seeming fixation with the same smartphone I use to share these daily art posts with you on Instagram. (But I’m normal and they’re fixated, right?) By the time they reach this painting (entitled “Hen of the Woods” a mushroom 🍄 described in Japan as “dancing”, with properties of immune stimulation in cases breast cancer, known to grow at the base of oak trees such as whose leaves carpet this scene), I would speculate that our lithe nubiles have overindulged in vice - by which I mean social media and streaming video. You only usually see that shade of blue staining their visages on faces confronted with blue screens of death after all-night sprees building virtual castles of sand… and on the lips of drowned sailors washed into the harbour after a ferocious storm. (Is there a message in that blue bottle at the top left?) Ironically, as they zone out into the infinite realms of the mind implied by the postage stamp-sized windows through which they explore, their ripe physicality makes a final, unnoticed, sensual bid for primacy in ecstatic contortions. When they finally look up from their phone screens, after reaching the end of the Internet or the built-in obsolescence of their particular model of iPhone, they run the risk of finding themselves immature adolescents trapped in the withered, gnarled bodies of spinster crones. (No, I’m not speaking from experience, why do you ask?) http://ift.tt/2mzC7Aa
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