“*Disclaimer (Sea of Words)”

This painting is another version of the original “*Disclaimer”, also to be found in this series. It parodies the tendency to cage loving, nourishing nature in the shortsighted artifice of law. Parhelion read a legal disclaimer years ago on a box of milk stating that the contents plus water were a product that would meet a legal standard for milk. He knew right away that he would have to paint something that parodied those words; a work that would wake us up to the absurd tendency of small minds to take something wholesome and nourishing (like milk, which feeds us first on our entry into life, or art, without which life isn't worth living) and try to cage it and de-nature it in a prison of laws and standards. It took a year just to track down the exact words used, then more time to play with them and come up with a unique twist on them, and then paint the result on canvas. He plans many more iterations of this work, with variations on the phrase! He obtained the canvas and decided to use the many pots of different colours of acrylic paint he had on hand from his other works. At first progress was slow, paint being laid a stroke or 2 of a single colour at a time! One day, he knew it was time to blaze through to completion, which he did in the course of a single afternoon and night. The feeling of total fulfilment was indescribable!