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Some places hold their stories in what remains.

The Ruin’s Red Residents. Achill Island, painting by Elena

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The Ruin’s Red Residents. Achill Island

Elena

The story of the work

The ruin is not empty. Two red foxes stand within the opening where a door or window once held another kind of life. The painting turns absence into shelter and lets the place continue in a new register.

The fox painting displayed above a wooden bench.
The framed fox painting displayed above a dark mantel.

The work

Artist
Elena
Medium
Acrylic on archival paper
Dimensions
40.5 × 51 cm (16 × 20 in)
Framing
Framed and ready to hang
Place relationship
Unspecified
Place
Achill Island
Status
Collected work

Acquisition

Collected work

Authenticity
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