HANIS KHAIRUNNISA

Artwork by this artist ranges between £100 - £200. Please contact the artist directly, or Artist Talk for more information.

Inspired by a story written by a friend, the fourth dimension frog is painted with acrylic on canvas, depicting a climactic moment a usually-elusive, seeminglypsychic amphibian allows itself to be bludgeoned by a now-baffled scientist on a stage during a Ted Talk, resulting in an unribboning of rainbow guts and the scientist’s sanity.

Certain parts of the story scrawled across the painting reveal glimpses into the tale of the frog and its dogged pursuit by an obsessive scientist. Colours and brushstrokes used convey the psychedelic nature of an immortal species from another dimension, and the artist’s love for this very specific genre and of what she considers to be great literature.

Hanis makes things at the whim and fancy of her ADD and is led, ring-through-cow-nosedly, to create whenever inspiration strikes (at the most inconvenient times, and its completion at the behest of a quickly waning interest). When she is not painting, or sleeping, she is writing. Mostly in her head. Her phone notes are chock-a- block with poetry and stories rife with made-up words and phrases. Artwork is not so easily capturable into tiny nuggets to be stored in a device, and thus, this frog painting, therefore, is a rarity in its realization, and much beloved to her.

The author of the story that this painting is based on has refused to comment.

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