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© Artist Gina Jrel
June, 2006
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Life and Death
Medium:
Oil, acrylic, acrylic jewels, gold leafing, and antique skeleton keys on gallery-wrapped canvas
Dimensions:
24"w x 30"h
Edge Treatment:
Gallery-wrapped edges are hand-painted, and adorned with antique skeleton keys. No framing necessary.
Framing:
Unframed
Original Available For Purchase: 
Private Collection /Danville, CA
Available in Giclee:
Yes
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About the Painting:
Throughout my body of painting work, one can easily find a repeated juxtapositioning of opposites. I love to pick out things
in life that pose subtle or striking contrast, and find an interesting way to portray them visually in a painting.
Life and Death is a complex painting for me. For me, after contemplating this topic at great length, I find both beauty
and horror in both aspects. There are times when life is so good, the feeling of elation is so strong it all but carries you.
Other times the weight of life is so heavy that death looks magical, mystical and beautiful in comparison. I know so many
people who experience this toggle of feelings, which I find facinating, and which attracted me to attempt to paint it.
In my final painting, I hope the viewer will accept my invitation to look at this painting two ways: first with left
side of the piece representing life, and then the right side as life.
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