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Brienna McLaughlin Pruce
http://brienna.net
Confinement
acrylic on canvas, 47" x 47"
2007
A crowntail displays its fins to fight a dead fish.
acrylic on canvas, 47" x 47"
2007
Their colors live outside their contained existence
acrylic on canvas, 35" x 47"
2007
Male and female betta
oil on canvas, 48" x 66"
2006
Betta fish are considered disposable items that can be checked out, returned (dead), and discarded much like cheap plastic toys.
Water dyed blue
oil on canvas, 47" x 47"
2006
Stacked to the ceiling
oil on canvas, 95" x 54"
2006
Fish are foreign, and we have difficulty feeling sorry for something other than ourselves.
oil on canvas, 54" x 190"
2007
Magnifying bettas to human scale and portraying their environment from a fish eye perspective provokes the question: what if that dying fish were me?
The beginning and the end
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Inside their world
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Bettas stored in picnic cups
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Prices on a blue tank
mixed media, 10" x 30"
2007
Isolated amidst many
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
The betta fish signify the trapped and suffering animals of the world.
Little living paintings
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
One empty tank
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Betta Tanks I
mixed media, 10" x 30"
2007
Betta Tanks II
mixed media, 10" x 30"
2007
Fish in glass bowls
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Fish in plastic cups
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
The betta is the overlooked, forgotten animal, merely appreciated for superficial aesthetic qualities; it represents all of our shallowness and pain.
Fish Eye VI
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2006
Fish Eye VIII
mixed media, 6" x 6"
2006
Fish Eye X
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Their existence is a plastic cup with barely enough water to survive.
Fish Eye XII
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Fish Eye XIII
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Fish Eye XIV
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Through my paintings, I hope to reinforce our connection to other living beings and remind us of the fragility of life.
The manager said, “Next time, call before visiting so I can move the betta fish into tanks because people often get upset by images of fish in cups.”
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
A child found a fish wedged between the tank dividers, dying.
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Someone asked, “Which one do you want to save?”
mixed media, 10" x 10"
2007
Our own living and working environments are not much better with apartments stacked sky-high and claustrophobic cubicles providing barely enough room to move.
acrylic on canvas, 95" x 54"
2007
It is my hope that we recognize ourselves as the betta, and our world as a plastic cup.