What You Lookin For

by G Cuffia

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18.000 x 24.000 inches

Title

What You Lookin For

Artist

G Cuffia

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

This Maasai mother asks the spectator: What are you lookin' for? Perhaps her stare is an invitation to participate in the feeding of her boy or she is establishing eye contact to peer into one's soul desire. Her plain scarlet wrap is devoid of decoration, but her adornment with jewels make up for it. The wrap also serves as a distraction to the lions, for scarlet confuses them. The baby is tearful because he can't get fed because mom is distracted by the onlooker. There is no urgency once she asks the question: What Are You Looking for?
Can she evoke an answer from you that would please her enough to go about her busines as usual? Or, let's just stare at her queen features from a safe distance.
I used a palette knife in the distinctive background and if you look closely in the background you can see the precipitation of her anticipation to interact in our lives." Get away from us" she muses because "you are trouble" get away.
Finally, if we gaze into her eyes we can detect that feeling every mother detests at the knowlege that her only son will be taken as a sacrifice for the family, for the calamity that has befallen the clan, or just snuffed away because of something trivial. This painting was the headshot of the brochure: MAASAI WOMEN: A CHAPTER CELEBRATING DIVERSE EXPRESSIONS IN REALISM exhibition in Baltimore, MD. 2006.

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September 5th, 2009

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