
"Mass Suicide" from Special Forces #2
A swirling, hallucinatory composition rendered in Essenhigh's signature sinuous lines and luminous oil enamel, depicting anonymous figures merging and dissolving into one another in a fluid, almost cartoonish choreography of collective destruction. The smooth, glossy surface amplifies the work's unsettling tension between decorative beauty and dark subject matter, as bodies appear to melt into a shared, undulating fate. Essenhigh transforms an act of mass tragedy into something disturbingly elegant, blurring the boundary between violence and ornament.
- Medium
- oil enamel on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 17, 2013
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