{"product_id":"three-deer","title":"Three Deer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHREE DEER\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAcrylic on Canvas | 55\" × 65\" | 2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt took two years. Some paintings need that long to become what they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree Deer\u003c\/em\u003e is painted from source photographs that turned out — discovered after the fact, in one of those moments of serendipity that feel less like coincidence and more like the work knowing something the painter didn't yet — to be among the first ever uses of flash photography on a moving target. The earliest frozen moment. The first time light was used to stop time and look at something that would otherwise have kept moving. For an artist with a long history as a photographer, with a sustained and serious fascination with deer — painted and photographed, living and dead — the discovery was not surprising so much as inevitable. The right images find the right painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deer themselves have always meant something specific. Innocence in the overlooked. The extraordinary ordinary — animals so common they are rarely looked at properly, so gentle they are almost invisible, carrying in their stillness and their dark eyes something that resists easy articulation but rewards sustained attention. They have been painted for as long as painting has existed. They have been photographed since almost the beginning of photography. They keep being made into art because they keep meaning something that nothing else quite means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 55×65 this canvas was a daunting undertaking — the largest and most ambitious work of its moment, requiring two years of sustained commitment to complete. It has been exhibited at \u003cstrong\u003eParnell Gallery, Auckland New Zealand\u003c\/strong\u003e — one of the country's most respected commercial galleries — where it held its own in the company of serious work and proved itself completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree Deer\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most significant paintings in this collection. Perhaps in this body of work entire. It carries the weight of photography history, of personal obsession, of two years of looking and two years of painting and the particular satisfaction of a work that arrived exactly as it needed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe innocence of the overlooked. Seen now. Properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📦 Shipping \u0026amp; Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e55\" × 65\"\u003c\/strong\u003e original acrylic on canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExhibited at \u003cstrong\u003eParnell Gallery, Auckland NZ\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned and dated 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlease \u003cstrong\u003econtact us before purchasing\u003c\/strong\u003e to discuss shipping, stretching and installation options for this significant large scale work\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. Two years. The first flash. The innocence of the overlooked.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decorum Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42965559050334,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4929\/6990\/files\/threedeer-custom_1.jpg?v=1783016381","url":"https:\/\/decorumatelier.com\/products\/three-deer","provider":"Decorum Atelier","version":"1.0","type":"link"}