This collage combines three of the most important players in artistic love triangles: Shakespeare (Twelfth Night), Picasso (Marie Therese and others), and Jackson Pollock. The last two had tragic endings (gun and gin). The word "SHIP" references Lee Krasner leaving by ship right before Pollock's fatal car accident with his new lover and the shipwreck at the beginning of Twelfth Night. "Rapunzel loses her hair" refers to the blond beauty Marie Therese losing her hair after a tragic swim. The sheet of paper is from the "Twelfth night". Written on top of the paper is the phrase "Love triangle? No a couple to be exact" combined with relevant math symbols (in particular an exact couple which relates to another mathemtical concept called a spectral sequence). This refers to the love triangle and conclusion of the Twelfth Night. The word spectral also refers to the ghost like figure on the right of the work that comes from one fo Picassos’ paintings about love traingles. Almost drowned references Viola's brother in 12th and another's close call.
I added relevant math to Paul Klee's Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank which features two men bowing at each other. Referencing the Birch Swinnerton Dyer conjecture, I sketch the “analytic” and “algebraic” ranks of an elliptic curve and draw arrows pointing to thought bubbles. Since it is unknown which value is larger (the conjecture hypothesizes they are equal) neither man knows which value is larger and hence bow.
This work is a clarion call for society to sober up and continue the fight against slavery.
Even though slavery was finally criminally abolished in 2007 there are tragically still 27,000,000 slaves in the world. Its time for us all to sober up and join the fight for a world where people cant invade another’s most intimate space whether for work or sex.
