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Distress — The Whole World Is Watching V
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Features
- • Signed
- • Unframed
- • Certificate of originality included
Description
An original oil painting from The Whole World Is Watching. Distress is a signed, unframed 2026 work on canvas with a certificate of originality included.
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 × 24 × 1.5 in (61 × 61 × 3.8 cm)
Shipping
Shipping, delivery, and timing are arranged after inquiry.
Details
Category: paintings
SKU: TWWIW-V-ORIGINAL
Visibility: Shown on site
Status: Available
Item type: Original painting
Condition: new
Year made: 2026
Artist: Essebes
Tags: painting, original art, The Whole World Is Watching, Distress
Authenticity: Certificate of originality included.
Details in this painting
- Blue eyes
- Innocence remains. Even as the imagery expands toward a larger national question, the child is still watching.
- Goggles
- Protection. Protective armor remains part of the figure.
- Headphones
- Shielding. Another attempted barrier between innocence and what is happening around it.
- Green mark
- Armor and protest. The recurring protective mark continues into the larger 24-inch composition.
- Red mark
- What gets through. The mark represents what can still reach a child despite attempts at shielding and protection.
- Upside-down American flag
- A signal of distress. The American imagery is deliberately unsettled and contributes to the sense that something is profoundly wrong.
- Faded lettering
- A warning embedded in the surface. Rather than sitting cleanly on top of the painting, the words become partially absorbed into its disturbed visual field.
About the Artist
Essebes works across painting, fiber sculpture and mixed media, following an intuitive process in which composition, color and expression develop through the act of making. In the ongoing oil-on-canvas series The Whole World Is Watching, portraiture becomes a way to explore innocence, protection, witnessing and accountability.
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