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Surpassing the merits of aesthetic delight, the artworks of David Kracov often draw on the artist’s literary panache and activist persuasions to bring elaborate meaning to seemingly fantastical images. Using stylistic renderings and even childish perspectives, the artist employs color and uplifting forms to instill his works with positive energy, often stemming from darker origins. ‘Reflections’ depicts the New York skyline in a stylized manner, using almost fluorescent colors to essentially warm the metallic muses of reality. Parting the centre of the skyline, where the WTC Towers one stood, a rabble of butterflies soar into the sky, resplendent with freedom, flight and color. Consisting of exactly 2,977 individually hand painted butterflies, the artist’s characteristic symbols represent the exact number of lives lost on 11th September 2001, both eulogizing and celebrating each life. In the water below, the towers can be seen as fluid reflections- a solemn admission of their existence and loss, and the connection to the artist’s literary play. The composition of the buildings display architectural influences in their clear lines and geometric precision, while the wavering reflected forms show a mastery of medium, transcending the edges of metal to achieve an aqueous movement; The neon colors, too, depart from reality and hint at the effect of David’s lifelong work with brightly colored cartoons and figures (at both Disney and WarnerBros), showing an artist who is both experienced with and involved with positive energies,- excelling in stylistic exaggerations.
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