Influenced (Might and Strife in Geometric)

Meg Stoios, 2023, Oil on canvas, 93 x 162 cm, $4,000

Here a woman is photographed by a man for what will presumably become social media content. Performing a yoga-esque stunt pose, the figure as it appears on camera has been abstracted to its most basic geometric form.  

The comedy of abstraction betrays the social media machine… “what seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind” (Shakespeare’s Macbeth).