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A peaceful palette, like a soft grassy lawn with pools of fleshy corals and pinks. Prominent thumbs in the foreground are more rendered and spring forward. A grayish thumb cups a warmer one, as both hold a glowing breast like form. This orb is encircled by a third thumb resting gently atop the pile. A mass of jumbled hands appears again above, slightly more sorted. Oil stick lines delineate two hands gripping a breast with an erect nipple, a small echo of the action below. These hands are surrounded by shadows, several layers of transparent blue, magenta and black poured like a curtain. When squinting, the painting feels less literal, like rolling hills and a storm cloud. The marks are direct and quick, a mix of brushwork, scrapes and drawn lines, accumulating densely at times, leaving drips all in their wake.

Sarah Faux

How do you know what love is, 2022
Oil on canvas
177.8 x 203.2 x 3.8 cm
70 x 80 x 1 1/2 in
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Faux lets images come to the surface and slip away just as easily, taking pleasure in their unraveling. From this in-between place, an intense yearning for touch. In this painting...
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Faux lets images come to the surface and slip away just as easily, taking pleasure in their unraveling. From this in-between place, an intense yearning for touch. In this painting fingers grasp and come together but the picture is never fully realised, remaining seductively out of reach. In her tightly cropped composition, Faux delves into the interior, uncovering how much of our sensory lives occur beneath the skin.

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Sweetbitter, Hales New York, USA, 2023
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