After Friedrich 'Monk by the Sea'

After Friedrich 'Monk by the Sea'

610mm(h) x 910mm(w) Oil on Canvas. Some years ago I asked the question about the removal of all codes e.g. brands, gender, colour, race etc. and wondered what we would be left with. Is this what our soul would look like? I produced a shroud and had someone walk around a busy town centre wearing it, covering their identity totally, and posing the question to the public via video. No words were exchanged, only body language. The result was ‘fear’ or ‘ridicule’. I placed the unknown identity within this picture as a Romantic gesture similar to Caspar David Friedrich’s painting ‘Monk by the Sea’.