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This painting is a celebration of my love for my wife and hitting our 25 year mark, it is a painting showing how much I appreciate her, her curves, and how she can straighten me out when I'm on edge, or grumpy and jagged. It has words and heart shapes and our anniversary date hidden throughout the "reef" comprised of our bodies and our loving foundation, from rough and complicated rocky days, to "date nights", exploring, growing in love and eventually open seas, vibrant colors and smoooooth sailing...


 

There are several partial faces hidden throughout the painting, some are showing different emotions and levels of "bliss" and pleasure, this painting is a man feeling and admiring the curves of his wife's body, in the loving moments after...

It started as 2 flesh colored figures laying in bed, over time the coral consumed the figures and the reef took shape. The process of this painting was to not put my wife in an uncomfortable position by "opening our bedroom doors", but to push the boundaries of my own personal artistic limits, kind of testing how far I'd be willing to go, but tasteful. Then it started to take a meaning, like truly telling the story of our growing relationship, from rocky to smooth.

The initials "M" and "S" are hidden throughout the painting, as is our anniversary, August 15th of 1997 (81597) highlighted in yellow bottom right corner beneath the arm of my wife, highlighted in pink.

There are lips in the center middle just to the right of the Kissing Gourami's.






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