Barbara Shenefield Art + Design

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When is an artwork finished? - see updates 12/18/21

It is a question that all artists I know of wrestle with from time to time. This is one that I keep tinkering with. I think it’s where I want it to be - it gives an idea of the diverse, eclectic and small scale feeling of this area that we have gotten to know and become fond of. I deliberately leave out the items that would really make it ‘real’ - people, cars, busses, signs - so it is a bit of a fantasy? Do we often tend to ‘ look through’ those of omnipresent parts of our everyday existence?

This is better for the colors? Part of the point is the diversity, the character, the color both metaphorically and literally

And this has an added layer of - street life!

Detail of the streetlife silhouettes