Daryll Peirce

Or the Bad News First

by Daryll Peirce

Art Print

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Collect your choice of gallery quality Giclée, or fine art prints custom trimmed by hand in a variety of sizes with a white border for framing.

A large drawing I created for 1xRUN that was inspired from a pair of paintings "Would You Like the Good News" and "Or the Bad News First" which I painted back in 2011. For 1xRUN, I had painted full color depth into each black and white drawing of the print run, but I also love this as a standalone black and white piece which I thought I could offer as an open edition here on Society6.

There's a more in-depth interview on the 1xRUN site here: http://1xrun.com/runs/Hand-Embellishe...News_First

Here's a quick run-down of the piece itself:

I often work in multiple pieces and diptychs to tell a story and emphasize the alternate sides of certain subjects. I had originally created individual pieces, one with a left hand and the other right hand each holding a flowering structure. The right hand holds one colonized flowering micro-environment cluster of living thriving vitality and the other of apathy, negligence, and wilting death. I suppose they're rooted in our inherent connection to our natural and self-made environments and our role as self-aware and bipolar beings with the power to sustain or destroy ourselves consciously. More literally, we are always faced with choices and in one hand you may hold an improved future and in the other our destruction. I've also struggled with personal self-destructive issues as well which is a constant choice we all face to various degrees.

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