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Oil on canvas
4 x 7 ft.

I have changed Sapirstein, MD to “Dr. Rosenhan,” the Stanford psychologist who conducted a controversial 1973 experiment. Eight stooges feigned hallucinations getting themselves committed. After this, they acted completely normal. Nonetheless, they found it difficult to be released. His paper on the subject is “On Being Sane in Insane Places.”

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Oil on canvas
4 x 7 ft.

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this is no dream

With the theme of disorientation in mind, I have created paintings culled from three seconds of footage from Rosemary’s Baby of the protagonist anxiously exiting her corrupt doctor's office.

The experiential encounter with time is often a funhouse mirror where some afternoons loom larger than others. Oil painting on canvas can freeze a brief moment. Could this be testament to an obsession? A fervent desire to worship at the altar of a singularly strained and fraught spot of time? “It is the secret wish of all poets to stop time,” observed former Laureate Charles Simic.

Rosemary disintegrates on a monumental scale. This is her anagnorisis - the point in a play when a protagonist recognizes another character's true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances. I meditated upon Mia Farrow as a muse for our cultural moment when conspiracies and fear of them are playing an outsized role in the public consciousness and dark imagination.

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