Artwork Description

‘The Hermit’ deals with physical and social seclusion. The hermit crab protects it’s vulnerable abdomen by encasing it within a salvaged seashell while religious hermits withdraw from society in order to facilitate a purer connection with God. Their hermitic existence protects them from worldly distractions of no consequence to their spiritual pursuits.

The painting shows a nautilus almost entirely encasing a skull cavity. A branch emerging from a crack between the shell and the skull is an antennae feeling for the outside world.

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Oil on Linen

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Tags#Skull, #Shell, #sea, #myth, #mythology, #religion, #surreal

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