{"product_id":"blue-dog","title":"Blue Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLUE DOG\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAcrylic on Birch Wood Panel | Triptych — 6ft × 4ft | 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2017 several things happened simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn rural India, dogs began appearing blue. Not metaphorically blue. Literally, chemically, impossibly blue — the result of swimming in a river contaminated with synthetic dye leaking from a clothing factory upstream. The dogs had no idea they were blue. They were simply dogs, living their lives, made strange by the careless machinery of industrial production that had nothing to do with them and everything to do with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, a rare planetary alignment was occurring overhead — celestial bodies arranging themselves into a configuration that happens once in a very long time, indifferent to the blue dogs below, indifferent to everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd online, with the particular momentum of an idea whose time had inexplicably come, the flat earth movement was growing. Millions of people reconsidering the shape of the planet. The ground beneath the blue dog suddenly uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Dog\u003c\/em\u003e holds all of that simultaneously — the blue dog stands on a disc of raw red, the flat earth made literal and bleeding at the edges, planetary orbs arranged above in yellow, green and pink against a ground of deep indigo and near-black that is simultaneously night sky and industrial darkness and the particular blue of contaminated water. The panels spread the composition across six feet of birch wood — the triptych form of altarpieces, of sacred narratives, of things that require more than one panel to contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a painting about the world as it actually is — which is to say simultaneously scientifically explicable, cosmically indifferent, industrially catastrophic and completely, heartbreakingly beautiful. The dog is blue. The planets are aligning. The earth may or may not be flat. The factory is still running.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most conceptually significant works in the collection. It was not made to be sold easily. It was made to be lived with by someone who understands that the most important paintings are the ones that keep asking questions long after you've stopped looking for answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📦 Shipping \u0026amp; Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e6ft × 4ft triptych\u003c\/strong\u003e — three birch wood panels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcrylic on birch wood panel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned and dated 2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDue to the exceptional scale and triptych nature of this work please \u003cstrong\u003econtact us before purchasing\u003c\/strong\u003e to discuss shipping, installation and handling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCertificate of authenticity included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne original. No reproductions. The dogs were blue. The planets were aligning. The factory is still running.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decorum Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42965493284958,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4929\/6990\/files\/bluedog-custom.jpg?v=1783012137","url":"https:\/\/decorumatelier.com\/products\/blue-dog","provider":"Decorum Atelier","version":"1.0","type":"link"}