The Cost for a Flowering
Claire Chupik
See it On Campus: Level 1
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Installation of two works on campus at Emily Carr University, The Gift and A Home for Lilies. As seen exhibited for The Show 2023.
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Oil on canvas
42×54
2023
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Lilies, Egyptian Paste, Steel, Stoneware
2023
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Lilies, Egyptian Paste, Steel, Stoneware
2023
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Relevant Work
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oil on canvas
16″ x 20″
2022
“It is the cost of disobeying the laws of the natural flow of energy that is at the heart and soul of the Oedipus Story. Those who make the journey contribute to the flowering of culture. Any who misunderstand or cheat, refusing or failing to pay the cost of inner growth, pay instead in the coin of loneliness, anxiety, alienation. It is chiefly the feminine that pays this inauthentic price.”(p.25)
-Robert A. Johnson, Femininity Lost and Regained
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oil on canvas
18″ x 24″
2023
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oil on canvas
10″ x 12″
2022
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oil on canvas
52″ x 59″
2021
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Oil on Canvas
24 x 30
2023
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oil on canvas
16″ x 20″
2022