Oil on canvas 40 x 40cm
I enjoy painting scissors: and depending on the scissors they have different personalities as well as uses. My mother was very careful to keep her sewing scissors out of reach so that we wouldn't blunt them cutting paper, cardboard, plastic, wire, whatever.
Scissors evoke creativity: sewing, collage, cut and paste, but also danger; they can be used for cutting out, gouging, severing. Then there is the game: scissors, paper, rock which is a game of power. The notion of 'running with scissors' is an image or metaphor for madness. So - these were a few of the ideas in the back of my mind as I painted this picture.
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