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[suit.a.ble] Sweet Home Alatracksuit

In this resplendent and highly metaphorical family portrait, the canvas becomes a stage for a symphony of musical prowess that urges artistic expression as a vehicle to deepen familial harmony. Against the cloud-cloaked backdrop of mountains, bathed in the warm glow of a picturesque bonfire, four figures furnished in tracksuits converge in a celebration of nonconformity. The viewer is compelled to evaluate the meaning of each archetypal figure and the meaning of life itself as a performance set before the totalizing expanse of the universe.

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[suit.a.ble] Two-Track Minds

In this captivating dreamscape, the viewer is transported to a realm where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur into a kaleidoscopic tapestry of surreal beauty. At its heart lies a couple adorned in vibrant, feline print tracksuits, their forms entwined in a harmonious, circuitous quadrupedal embrace as they recline foot to foot amidst a verdant symphony of grass and the fallen leaves of a weeping willow.

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[suit.a.ble] Tracking Progress

This work invites viewers to interrogate the intersecting realms of gender, courtship, and physicality through the lens of postmodern irony. In this provocative work, we are confronted with the spotlighted paradox of retro athleticism set adjacent to the contemporary dialectic that challenges outdated notions of strength, agency, and relational dynamics.

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[suit.a.ble] Don’t Follow Suit: An Ode to Dissonance

This work beckons the observer into a realm where the mundane collides with the surreal, where the banal becomes a canvas for the extraordinary. In this enigmatic viewscape, the viewer is confronted with a tableau that defies categorization, challenging conventional notions of identity, space, and performance.

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[suit.a.ble] The pursuit of happiness: Crossing the Corrugated Rubicon in Ephemeral Triumph

Against a towering backdrop of an all-encompassing inland rainforest, two figures celebrate a transitory moment of clairvoyant ascendancy over the grinding exigencies of human existence. The viewer is invited to witness—from the perspective of the forest itself—the couple’s elegant and haunting defiance against the hamsteresque treadmill of postindustrial travailles.

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[suit.a.ble] Trackway to the danger zone

In the shadow of progress itself, this scene beckons the viewer into a realm where the collision of nature and human endeavour yields a symphony of absurdity. At the heart of this enigmatic tableau stands a solitary figure, a bearded warden clad in a tracksuit that serves as both armour and emblem of his existential journey.

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[suit.a.ble] Suit Yourself

In this luxurious and provocative mise-en-scène, the viewer is transported into the deeply personal realm where the exotic imagination intersects with the intimate nuances of platonic friendship.

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[suit.a.ble] Suit Velour

In this enigmatic portrait, one is beckoned toward a convergence of contrasts and contradictions rich with the symbolism of consumer capitalism. At its heart lies a couple, each adorned in velour tracksuits, their presence a testament to the duality of human existence amidst the trappings of material opulence.

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[suit.a.ble] Track to the Future

Drawing an ultramodern parallel to Grant’s American Gothic, this tableau offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the archetypal rural family, exploring the realities of postindustrial life in a small mountain town.

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