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The nature of being human

Manikin Dreams: What is it to be human? Is it to be more then flesh and bone? More then red liquid pumping through veins? Is it thought, laughter, the ability to love, to sing, to dance, to dream? Or is it empathy: to feel the joy and sorrow of others? Is it the willingness to shed water, to sacrifice ones own flesh?

Is it the ability to question? How can a disassembled mannikin ever dare to think, to breathe, to dream of of nimble movement, to gaze into the eternal silence and return with knowledge of the self? Is being human the ability to give form to something new that was only imagined? To create complex ideas? Or, is humanity the act of questioning the nature of the self?

Is it possessing a soul? The ability to have faith in something greater then ones self, or the exercise of free will to deny fealty and chose ones own path?
 
As this series expands, it may become the base for a book.
 
Duane Kirby Jensen
1.18.11
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All Paintings in this album © 2011 By Duane Kirby Jensen.



Mannikin Dreams
Mannikin Dreams
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Mannikin Dreams (Panel 1/3)
Mannikin Dreams (Panel 1/3)
$250

Study /sketch for Mannikin Dreams:
Study /sketch for Mannikin Dreams:

Mannikin Dreams (Panel 2/3)
Mannikin Dreams (Panel 2/3)
$300

Mannikin Dreams (Panel 3/3)
Mannikin Dreams (Panel 3/3)
$250

Study /sketch for Caged Desire.
Study /sketch for Caged Desire.

Mannikin Dreams: Caged Desire
Mannikin Dreams: Caged Desire
$200

Sketches for Mannikin Dreams and Despair
Sketches for Mannikin Dreams and Despair

Study /sketch for Ambiguity of Identity: View finished painting elsewhere in album.
Study /sketch for Ambiguity of Identity: View finished painting elsewhere in album.

Mannikin Dreams: Ambiguity of Identity
Mannikin Dreams: Ambiguity of Identity
$295

Sketches for Mannikin Dreams and Despair
Sketches for Mannikin Dreams and Despair

The Chaos of Assemblage
The Chaos of Assemblage

The Lingering Sadness:
The Lingering Sadness:

Stolen Moments:
Stolen Moments:

Dead Heads:
Dead Heads:

Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

Self-Sacrifice
Self-Sacrifice

Murmurs
Murmurs

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Thanks for making me to ponder.
-- Emmanuel Abdalmasih Samson, 3/27/11