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01 every drop of blood is love i don’t get back
Inspired from floor boards in my home, they lay now forever stained with blood holding memory in the grains of the wood. Based on abstracting personal experience into a setting of the bedroom in an unconventional manner.
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02 you told me you loved me but i knew your hands loved something else
Pulling from the same home floor boards lies now a smushed cherry on the ground, surrounded by seeds lying next to it. Creating a play on the innuendo of ‘popping cherries’ and intimate partners. The small canvas forces the viewer to engage with... More
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03 but there’s something about the way you want what's left of me
Creating a visual dialog into the active participation within intimate acts, this work crops the figure to where her own hands are around her own neck, covered in blood. Identity cropped and focused on her neck and sternum, the forced crop of the... More
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04 all you wanna do
A female figure sat with the focus on her smearing cake across the back of her body. The combination between body and cake creates discomfort for being out of the ordinary while drawing parallels between each other of how body and cake may be the... More
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05 casings
On her knees, the figure is hinged leaning forward as she pulls and drags the cake now instead across the front of her body on her thighs. Still leaning into the cropping which creates engagement with the act occurring instead of engaging with the... More
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06 carnal appetite
With this work being small and strong contrasting darker hues, it creates a harder to read image within the darkness of carnal pleasures. Fingers peering to the forefront holding some form of carnage with the implication of someone's mouth going in... More
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07 because the taste reminds me i hate what love’s turned out to be
An intimate, uncomfortable scene as it’s closely focused on a figure's mouth ripping and eating an unknown substance that is created to feel more fleshy. Blood stains the teeth and lower jaw as the substance is everywhere.
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08 my body now leftover pieces of cake, flesh you decided you’d eat
Cake lays splattered on the floor boards, with the same blood stains sinking into the floor. With unknown hands grabbing into the cake taking pieces away as they consume and discard. Using the cake as a stand in for the female body while engaging... More
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09 now my rotted body can’t feel of worth besides someone’s meal
Pushing the high contrasts with shadows emerges several unknown bloody hands grabbing unidentifiable parts of the figure as it too is painted in blood. By cropping the scene in this way blurs the lines contextually the events surrounding it,... More
Work by
Kieran Keenan
Oil Painting
“' i wanna feel you from the inside' is a body of work examining the self objectification and sexualization of the female body through the representation of horror and cake. Drawing from personal...” [More]