Vanitas

Original Artwork

Dimensions: Height 24 in x Width 36 in.

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Vanitas is a genre of 17th Century Dutch painting that insert symbols of death in still life to remind viewers of their own mortality. This iteration by Amanda Ba also leads your eyes through each object in the arrangement from the still-lively roses that are in fact cut off from their roots to an orange and garlic peeled just enough to reveal their soft, vulnerable interiors.

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Amanda Ba

Works in NYC

She is aware of the precariousness of her own identity. This gives her permission to occupy, more comfortably and more productively, the liminal space that is what Ien Ang would call in-between-ness—for Ang, hybridity is a welcome respite from the boundaries that children of the diaspora are often confined within. The self-generated idealization of her far-away “foreign” childhood hometown is often glaring, and the hybrid woman finds herself at once escaping to and challenging her possibly-confabulated halcyon memories, the psychic remembrances of an apparent “motherland”. (One gazes at her homelands with weary lucidity and any illusory pane shatters.)