Shown to scale · bench 6 ft
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Where the Pelicans Return
The pier moves forward in a straight line while the pelicans return in a circle. Vela sets human ideas of progress against nature's repetitions: migration, tides and seasons. The shell's spiral offers a third form of movement. A spiral returns, but never to exactly the same point. Memory works the same way. We return to places that formed us, but we are never the same people who left them.
Enzo Vela · Where the Pelicans Return
Oil on canvas, 60 × 45 inches (152.4 × 114.3 cm)
Naples, Florida
Original · Concept, composition and artistic direction by Enzo Vela; realized in oil through a collaborative studio process.
Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity.
Acquired directly from the artist's studio, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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The question behind the painting
Do we really move forward, or do we spend our lives circling the places that formed us?
The shell in this work
From Florida, Remembered in Dreams · a study in Tidal Surrealism.