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Drawing and Painting

Emerald Repard-Denniston

Wet Dreams

Painting
2022
Oil on Canvas
48”x36”
Wet Dreams

“Intense hues of colour emulate the feelings of a place that is unnaturally fabricated. High school nostalgia becomes a vexed reflection of a superego turning to self internalization equalling a fragmented originality, bittersweet. Confrontationally resentful, my subjects become a self-sabotaging machine, unable to trust one another and the circumstances around them.

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Wet Dreams
Wet Dreams

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Emerald Repard-Denniston

Drawing and Painting

“I question; am I an unreliable narrator or an invalidated one? My work welcomes the viewer into my escapist, coming-of-age recollection. Ruminating on gender biases, identity crises, imposter...” [More]