If I leave before you darling…

2019

Hydrocal, acrylic, graphite

8”h x 4.5”w x 2”d

Edition of 5. ( 1-2 of 5 sold.)

“She says, "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard” - Iron & Wine, Naked as We Came

This piece was part of mine and my partner’s , Paul Romano, 2019 show at Arch Enemy Arts titled I imagine losing you all the time. It came after a health scare which nearly cost him his life, so the idea of loss has felt suffocatingly real since then. The Iron & Wine song, Naked as We Came, speaks to this idea of loss so beautifully and I wanted this piece to show that.

The piece is cast in Hydrocal ( industrial strength plaster) and is finished with raw graphite.. The piece measures 8”h x 4.5”w x 2”d. It is signed, dated and numbered on the back, with a hole drilled for it to be hung on a wall.

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