Mania and the Pearl Earring (2022)

Acrylic on canvas.

A response piece to Meraki the Phoenix’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring”. In an interview with Baldur Helgason, he expressed how he used to be assigned recreations of classic paintings during his education. Out of frustration and exhaustion of the assignments, he created his satirical paintings in response. Pinpointing a sort of manic element to his paintings, Meraki the Phoenix created this response piece with an even larger emphasize on an embodiment of mania.