Blue Veins

Lordrra’s Blue Veins are snaking acrylic evocations of anatomy and topography. An unlikely marriage of restraint of tone and form with an allover complexity told in rich hues provides the picture with a delicate yet commanding presence.

The present work’s subject is open to interpretation and not directly prescribed by the artist. The eponymous blue veins described in the work could be the avenues of life, pumping blood through our bodies until it spills out in some unhappy accident and turns disturbingly red. Alternatively, they could be their global equivalent: meandering rivers and streams crisscrossing our planet. Both possibilities (there are many more, to be sure) share a common function: life. They are the literal and figurative lifeblood of the world from which all things stem—tiny, beautiful, and indispensable veins of blue.