22" x 22", watercolour, 2000 This is the fourth in my Manhattan Project series (started, logically, with 001 ) but it has a compositional relationship to Rush and Tea , which features the traffic of a different, yet equally urban American city: Chicago. Here, Aisha is close up in the inset, while the background features the golden statue of Prometheus in the heart of New York City's Rockefeller Center , which I photographed during my first trip there in 1999. Mocking Atlas , featuring another Greek god, also takes place at Rockefeller Center. Much can be –and has been– made of the juxtaposition of these two images but (unlike Rush and Tea, where a pun is illustrated) I've left the meaning here up to the viewer, because I'm not telling.
Milê Murtanovski's artwork...mostly paintings...and the occasional scale model.