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When Your Ship is Capsizing, 2020, oil on canvas, 20” x 24”.

When Your Ship is Capsizing, 2020, oil on canvas, 20” x 24”.

This Painting is Very Hard to Photograph

April 07, 2020 by Carrie Witherell

I should probably get a better camera, but there is some kind of property of this painting that slightly blurs in every picture I take no matter what the lighting situation is.

While taking pictures of Josh for a portrait, he adopted a slightly concerned, slightly wide-eyed far away look and murmured “My gosh, look at that ship capsizing over there.” Typical to Josh’s nature, it turned out to be the best picture I took so I decided to run with it. I like the imaginary narrative it created as well as the sense of a slowly impending disaster that a lot of us are feeling lately in real life.

April 07, 2020 /Carrie Witherell
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