Nika Arminé
Title: Son Who Stayed
Size: 36" by 40"
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 2019
Price: Please Inquire
Description: Here seems a rift between the father’s world and this new life beyond that existence beckoning to the young man. And it’s within this breach or portal the duo seems struggling. The son appears caught in the embrace of the father - though to help him through or hold him there we cannot say. We are bedeviled and beguiled by the choice, seduced by both sides of the contest. We are lost in the limbo between love and liberty, past and future, absolutes and abstractions; existence atop it, fashioned from it a kind of furniture. We see in their graceful nonchalance a celebration of the human spirit, surmounting strife and circumstance.