Pop Icons in Everyday Life · Original artwork
A Stranger in a Strange Place
An original oil painting by Marco Santos · 2019
Artwork details
Series
Pop Icons in Everyday Life
Medium
Oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions
70 × 50 cm · 27.6 × 19.7 in
Framed dimensions
74 × 54.5 cm · 29.1 × 21.5 in
Year
2019
One of a kind · Signed · Framed · Ready to hang
Certificate of Authenticity included
Availability
Available · View on Saatchi Art
When Creation Becomes a Way of Life
A Stranger in a Strange Place reflects on the artist’s need to create: a pull that can feel liberating, but also impossible to ignore. When making art becomes part of how you survive and understand yourself, the idea of a “normal” working life can start to feel distant.
Part of Pop Icons in Everyday Life, the work looks at how pop culture enters everyday experience and gives shape to private feelings. Here, the “stranger” is the artist who keeps creating even when the world around them seems to offer no familiar place to belong.
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This artwork is an independent artistic reinterpretation inspired by contemporary visual culture and mythology. It is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by any entertainment company or rights holder.