Artist Gina Jrel

	© Artist Gina Jrel - May, 2004 Jealous Glance Medium: Oil, acrylic, and collaged magazine eyeballs on canvas Dimensions: 15"w x 20"h Edge Treatment: 3/4" bars are hand-painted and treated with a collage design of magazine eyeballs Framing: This piece is currently unframed, with hand-painted, gold and black striped edges. Price: $700 Original available for purchase: Yes Available in Giclee: Yes   About the Painting: This painting, as the title hints, is about jealously. I was hoping to portray the destructiveness of this emotion, something we have all felt, in a visual. In this dominantly green painting, the giant green monster, with its pointedly ugly eye, is directed at a couple in an embrace. The couple is painted in warm, sensual colors to symbolize the intimate and personal nature of their relationship. The hand at the top of the image points the finger at the couple, who is covered in voodoo-like pins. They symbolize all bad wishes being directed at them by the green eyed monster. The mirror symbolizes the fact that jealousy comes from within, and that the jealous person often has only to look inside to examine the root causes of that emotion. Although you cannot see them in the face of the painting, the edges of this piece are adorned with collaged magazine eyeballs, symbolic of the casted outward glance consistent with jealousy. I liked this juxtaposition of opposites: the outward glance, when in reality the emotion and all of its side effects originate from within the person experiencing the jealously.