14 (2024) Original Acrylic Painting by Steve White

Thanks to Wikipedia there is a story behind every number - did you know, for example, that 78 comes between 77 and 79, is the the 4th discrete tri-prime, and was the speed that old style albums used to be played? Carelessly Wikipedia doesn't inform you that in another life this artist was a semi-competent basketball player and always insisted on playing in the number 14 shirt. The explanation for this phenomenon is uncertain. Could it be because there are: 14 legs on a woodlouse; 14 lines in a sonnet; 14 stations of the cross; 14 overseas British territories; 14 golf clubs (maximum) allowed in a golfers bag; or that he played spectacularly well in front of his girlfriend one Valentine´s Day? It is unlikely. It is probably because that was the first shirt he picked off the pile when he first started playing, he scored a load of points in the game, and, in the overblown theatre of his own mind, the number attained mythical status. Pathetic.

Materials used:

Acrylics

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 23.62 x 23.62 x 1.38" (unframed) / 23.62 x 22.83" (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Geometric
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative