Description
High-quality timber framed print with perspex face. Exhibition quality box or flat frame styles. Available in multiple sizes and colors. Arrives ready to hang. Additional sizes are available. Toyotomi's Paper Planes is a parody of Alex Colville's 1965 painting To Prince Edward Island. Colville’s most iconic imagery has the power to seem ubiquitous. This painting has become almost as familiar an image to Canadians as Horse and Train, 1954, yet it has none of the overt drama or dream-like qualities of the earlier work. The scene of To Prince Edward Island is situated on the top deck of a P.E.I. ferry, where a woman looks directly out at the viewer through a pair of binoculars while a man sits behind her, his face obscured by her body. Much as in Woman in Bathtub, 1973, the female figure is the centrepiece of the composition while the male figure hovers in the background. However, the woman on the ferry is fully engaged in looking, at either their shared destination or their point of dep
