Eye of the Fly. Acrylic Pop Art Painting on Canvas
Adjoining panels of contrasting activity are separated from plain coloured fields by angular black lines.
One panel shows a group of two men and a woman within a distorted, curved cityscape, often considered as seen through the compound vision of a fly.
A circular device reinforces this idea, presenting a multi-faceted lens with slightly differing views of the same subject.
The group’s collective gaze leads towards an explosion on a building, though its meaning remains deliberately ambiguous.
A central panel depicts a cliff, with a woman’s feet positioned perilously close to the edge, shown in impossible proportions, heightening a sense of vertigo and danger that would go unnoticed from an indifferent, insect’s perspective.
*Artist Doug Kemp with Eye of a Fly – Small Town Drama Series Painting
In the lower corner, blue arrows circle a fedora, suggesting a diagrammatic study of an erratic flight path, reminiscent of an old air traffic controllers diagram.
Alternatively, it may imply a human study of the flight patterns of flies themselves, suggesting they might have an innate purpose just to pester people and actually have the intelligence to carry it out.
Doug plays with perception, transforming the mundane irritation of a fly into a metaphor for a strange and watchful form of surveillance.
