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Illustration

Anoosh Mubashar

Nose Blind

Painting
2024
Oil Paint on Canvas
12.6" x 23.1"
A painting inspired by George Fredrick Watts ‘Choosing’. Your sense of smell and nostalgia are closely correlated, and in Watts's painting, a girl is depicted smelling an odourless flower. Research has shown that early signs of nose-blindness may result in memory loss diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Hence sunflowers are odourless contrasting to the scented lilacs surrounding the figure.

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2024, GradEx 109
100 McCaul St, Toronto

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Anoosh Mubashar

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“Never Present explores various senses that trigger nostalgia by using symbolic imagery to depict being stuck in the past.”