Up in the Air

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By Gareth Bunting
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£400.00

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Dimensions (HxWxD):

27 × 27 × 3 cm

Materials:

Indian ink on found birch bark

Primary Medium:

Painting

Small
2026
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This work is painted on found birch bark, its torn edges and layered scars forming a naturally weathered ground. The surface feels unsettled, already marked by time and exposure, mirroring the atmosphere of an oncoming storm. Looking up through bare branches, the sky closes in. Darkened washes and vertical streaks suggest gathering rain and rising pressure, while the drawn lines of the trees strain and tilt as if pulled by unseen forces. Embedded within the scene is a subtle, uncanny reference to The Wizard of Oz: a balloon and a director’s chair suspended in the air, half-absorbed into the storm. These elements hover between recognition and disappearance, evoking the collapse of control, spectacle, and illusion. By folding cinematic imagery into a forest viewed from below, the piece blurs fantasy and reality. Nature becomes both stage and threat, indifferent to human narratives. The birch bark, once living and now fragile, holds this moment of instability—where drama, memory, and weather converge, and the sense of order is about to lift off and vanish.

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