Consume-ate

$4,200.00

Consume-ate

Original oil painting by Joli Artist

24 × 36 inches · Oil on canvas

Signed and dated (2017)

A figurative work examining intimacy, imbalance, and absorption.

The male figure occupies the dominant mass of the composition, intact and continuous. The female figure emerges in the upper body, her arm resting against his shoulder, but as the forms descend her body dissolves into his. The boundary between them collapses, leaving a single, uneven shape.

Thick impasto and saturated contour obscure separation rather than clarify it. Below, a fractured reflection moves across disturbed water while fuchsia flowers drift at the surface, marking the scene without softening it.

This work depicts closeness carried to its limit, where union becomes consumption.

Original oil painting. One of a kind.

Artist: Joli Artist

Website: JoliArtist.com

Social: @joli.artist

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Joli: A Stranger in a Strange Land

Joli’s work is record. A visual leak from a reality where Matriarchy is the underlying architecture of existence.

These paintings are artifacts — fragments from a parallel world carried into this one. A world where power is feminine, ancient, and self-defining.

JOLI WORKS IN THE VISUAL LANGUAGE HISTORICALLY USED TO CONSTRUCT AUTHORITY: FORMAL PORTRAITURE, IMPERIAL COMPOSITION, THE CLASSICAL GRAMMAR THAT DECLARES PERMANENCE, HIERARCHY, AND CONTROL. She KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THOSE TOOLS WERE BUILT TO DO and she USES THEM TO SHOW SOMETHING ELSE.

Across cultures, the visual language of power has always been legible: the posture, the framing, the weight of the gaze, the quiet assumption that the viewer is male. What changes here is the foundation beneath it.

IN THE WORLD THESE WORKS COME FROM, THERE IS NO STRUGGLE FOR VISIBILITY. THE CENTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MOTHER. POWER DOES NOT NEED TO BE CLAIMED, JUSTIFIED, OR MAINTAINED THROUGH ILLUSION. IT IS INHERENT.

WHAT IS UNSEEN HERE IS NOT HIDDEN THERE. YOU ARE NOT BEING SHOWN WHAT COULD BE. YOU ARE BEING SHOWN WHAT ALREADY IS.