The Strangers
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The Strangers plays with scale, distance, and the uneasy familiarity of shared space. A lone figure stands beneath a bright full moon, facing a magpie that feels both ordinary and slightly improbable. Framed by leaning buildings and a faint city skyline, the painting holds that strange urban feeling of being surrounded by life and still somehow standing alone within it.
I was interested in the magpie here as a kind of outsider presence. In some cities they feel like strangers themselves, watchful and self-possessed, moving through human spaces without ever quite belonging to them. That tension gave the painting its shape — a meeting, or perhaps just a passing recognition, between two figures occupying the same place but remaining unknowable to one another.Try it!
