Eidolon Cafe by SRaffa

The older I get, the more these paintings do connect up to whatever it is I'm currently going through-- this painting, in particular, turned out to be an allegory for why I quit my day job! Those crayons on the floor ended up being more compelling than maybe they should've been; the girl is meant to be ourselves as artists, who do art for art's sake, and the creatures at the tables are the employee which I had become-- over-caffeinated and underslept, but the blooming flowers in their lapels meant that they could still respond to art, when art walked in the room...

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Meh; this is kind of an allegory for the feelings I was experiencing when I wanted to quit my day job-- the circle of crayons are the protection an artist feels when surrounded by their tools of choice, and crayons are among our earliest talismans...

Thanks very much! I think this mostly amounted to an allegory of me quitting my day job to make more time for painting-- but if I had the opportunity to go back to that day job now, I'd do it in a New York minute!

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Thanks bub-- I like this one, too!

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What inspired it was an interior argument I kept having every morning about quitting my day job-- I did end up quitting, but three years later? I'd go back in a heartbeat!
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Thanks so much-- this is one of the few paintings of my own that I remain happy with!

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