Death and Love and Life and Birth in The Wild Wild West
Elias SilvaCruz
Fine Arts
About this Item
- Title
- Death and Love and Life and Birth in The Wild Wild West
- Date
- 2025
- Summary
- Recently someone compared my lifestyle to that of a cowboys, which I found pretty funny. It’s been added to the list of things I constantly think about as I go about my day to day along with everything else that’s in the title of my paintings. I’m forever thinking death, life , love, and birth so I felt like attempting to convey what that would look like to me in the wild wild west. The state of our country right now is incredibly scary to me as a queer trans person of color and attempting to convey that fear of the western world right now is all I can do to make myself feel better. Everything is awful and nothing I do can fix it so, I made it look the way I wished it’d look like. With colors that feel like the west to me and animals and forms that symbolically feel like the west to me and all these other concepts I’m exploring.
- Format
- Acrylic molding paste, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint
- Dimensions
- 48" x 36" , 36" x 48"
- Description
- Course: FA 256 - Intermediate Methods and Approaches - Painting IV
- Semester: Spring 2025, Semester 4
- Professor: John Allen
- Program Degree: Fine Arts AAS
- Rights
- In Copyright
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- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fa_000331
Citation
SilvaCruz, E. (2025). Death and Love and Life and Birth in The Wild Wild West. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618579
SilvaCruz, Elias. Death and Love and Life and Birth in The Wild Wild West. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618579
SilvaCruz, Elias. "Death and Love and Life and Birth in The Wild Wild West." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618579