Growth

$6,340.00 CAD

Joe Ded

Acrylic and aerosol on cradled wood panel.

48x48x3"

The towering skeleton draped in oceanic blue is no mere specter of death; it is Chronos, the devourer of time. Its flowing robe becomes a river—literally channeling the last lifeblood of the world into oblivion. Its skull, open to the cosmos, suggests a celestial being—almost godlike in scale—while the tears or streams flowing from its eyes imply both sorrow and consequence.

At the crown of the skull, a fragile Earth balances, glowing faintly—a haunting metaphor for our planet’s precarious place in the universe, and possibly on the brink of collapse.