“Subway Sonnet #17 | All You Need Is Love” is an original artwork by Susan Washington created in 2020

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o PAINTING SIZE: 40”H x 30”w. It is wired on the back and ready to be hung.

o This painting is created with high-quality oil paint, oil sticks and acid-free paper. The entire painting is sealed with a UV protective varnish.

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About this painting:

I was out gardening and the song "All You Need Is Love" started playing off my playlist. I put it on repeat and then was immediately inspired to go paint. Dropping everything I spent the next week in the studio feeling inspiration and positivity and love and that's what I put into this painting. The lyrics for the song are written all over the painting. It is created with high quality oil paint and paper on a thick profile gallery wrap canvas. The entire work is sealed with a gloss UV protective varnish and ready to hang.

About this series:

Visual narratives derived from memories of growing up in the projects of Sheesphead Bay, NY late 70s and 80s.   The works feel as if they are a collaboration of marks in the same way telephone booths and trains became filled with graffiti and stickers. Eroded pictures on top of images, song lyrics and quotes, graffiti and advertisement stickers - “The words of the prophet’s are written on the subway walls and tenement halls”.

Each painting with a particular mantra ranging from “love” to “prosperity.  I pay homage to post-war American art and neo-expressionists. Icons from the world’s religions and philosophies, pictures torn from art and fashion magazines and references to lyrics from my favorite bands find their way on my canvas. Affirmation is also found in mantras, spells and the lyrics of popular music and I can close my eyes in the studio, listening to a favorite track and see the energy of the city in my mind’s eye and that pushes me to paint what I feel and to roughly organize the narrative of the painting to fit a particular theme.

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