‘Delicate Balance of Terror’, 2016
Financial newspaper, archival inkjet, sand and acrylic on canvas
200 x 150cm
The Minotaur series are bull riders metaphorically referring to how the stock market is called the bull and bear market mythically for how they attack. A bear strikes down and a bull thrusts up correlating to the movements of price.
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