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LEAP OF FAITH (2002)
Acrylic on Panel - 11” x 10”

The smallest of the Faded Star series, it is a visual reflection of the unease and excitement I felt at jumping forth into the [for me] new world of so-called fine art painting.

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A low angle, slightly tilted perspective looking up an immense chamber. The walls of segmented concrete are dilapidated and filthy. As light shines down into the cavernous space, a solitary figure leaps off his makeshift perch into open air with arms spread wide. Below, a flock of doves stirs with the commotion, fluttering up through the chamber.
Background detail from LEAP OF FAITH featuring fading details of bricked over doorways. In the upper left, the artist sigil, the stylized letters M and W combined in a circle, are tacked on paper that also contains the date 97.
Figure detail from LEAP OF FAITH featuring a man dressed in tattered white jumping off the stub of a concrete ledge into the open air with arms spread. Into the cavernous space, light angles down, hitting the wall like a spotlight in a patch with a rounded top edge. A line of doves flirts with the edge of light.

LEAP OF FAITH

The Art of Michael Whelan
#fineart #imaginativerealism #personalvisions #fadedstar
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