Today on Mistigram, “The Instagrammers” by @delphinehennelly are rounding the bend of our IWD week and this series of paintings released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. The lazy, crazy salad days of summer are behind us now, and these women are all business. (well, business casual, I spot at least one bare foot.) There is important, landscape mode smartphone work to be done here, so in keeping with the Instagram terms of service, all breasts are covered up. Though the pastoral oak leaves still fill out this scene (up to and including the pattern on the subject’s leggings, because we never forget where we came from,) it is the bluish tinge of asphyxiation on her face that tells the whole story here - every other feature of this painting is depicted in loose, sketchy terms, while the one blade of grass anchoring us to some species of reality is that concerned visage, bathed in the stark blue light of harsh reality, as revealed by the glowing rectangle held in her hands. Everywhere the world is still formless and replete with potential, hazy and fantastical except where the screen’s glowing gaze falls, grounding and rendering mundane everything that it lands upon. Just look what it’s done to my Maenads! http://ift.tt/2mjppEd
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