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Fury
Fury represents the point at which witnessing becomes unbearable. The figure is screaming, but there is no sound. The word ENOUGH marks the moment when disbelief can no longer remain passive. Her blue eyes remain: the fury has not erased the innocence. She is still the child.
2026 · Oil on canvas
24 × 24 × 1.5 in (61 × 61 × 3.8 cm)
Signed · Unframed
Certificate of originality included
Details in this painting
- Blue eyes
- Innocence remains even inside the fury. The scream has not transformed the figure into something else; she is still the child.
- Goggles
- Protection. Protective armor remains present even as the emotional temperature of the series reaches its highest point so far.
- Headphones
- Shielding. The attempted barrier between innocence and the outside world is still there.
- Green mark
- Armor and protest. The green protective language continues.
- Red mark
- What gets through. The mark represents what can still reach a child despite attempts at shielding and protection.
- Upside-down American flag
- Distress. The unsettled flag carries forward the signal introduced in Distress.
- ENOUGH
- Refusal. The word marks the point where witnessing can no longer remain passive.
Fury represents the point at which witnessing becomes unbearable. The figure is screaming, but there is no sound. The word ENOUGH marks the moment when watching can no longer remain passive.
There comes a point when witnessing becomes unbearable. When protection becomes resistance. When disbelief becomes fury.
The blue eyes remain. The fury has not erased the innocence: she is still the child. The goggles, headphones and green mark continue the series’ language of attempted protection, armor and resistance.
The red facial mark first appeared intuitively earlier in the series and became more deliberate as the paintings developed. Essebes has come to understand it as what gets through despite attempts at protection — troubling messages, noise, images, experiences or falsehoods that can still reach a child even when adults try to shield them.
An ongoing protest series by Essebes about innocence, witness and the responsibility to protect children.
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