Into The Fog (2025)Oil painting by Stephen Benedek

A young man is walking , not too steadily , on a tightrope. The rope extends into an area with thick fog. Once in it , he will not be able to orient and balance with his eyesight. It will be a precarious situation.
I photographed a young man at a beach who had tied his rope between two trees, just a foot above the sand. He was teaching himself to walk the tightrope, and kept falling off after a few steps. But he would just put his foot down , and then got right back on the rope repeatedly. There was no fog , visibility was excellent.
But putting him in the painting's environment , I thought, was a metaphor for life. It's always a little precarious, (or not so little), and we never know what's ahead of us.
And I suppose there might be other interpretations.

Materials used:

Winsor & Newton paints

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60.96 x 50.8 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 60.96 x 50.8cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Photorealistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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