What if reality is more than what we can see? Inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socr...What if reality is more than what we can see? Inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socr...
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Venetia Manousaki
• Sep 2
What if reality is more than what we can see?
Inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates, I imagined that Socrates’ final thoughts might have reached beyond the world visible within the painting, and that, among everyone in the room, only one person truly understood.
While the scene continues almost exactly as David painted it, the young man in the background notices something beyond the frame. He raises his hand in farewell, and a realistic hand from outside the painting waves back.
For a brief moment, the boundary between the painted world and our own disappears.
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