Daelynn Murphy, Student Work

 This piece, inspired by the painting The Death of Marat, is a surrealist interpretation of escapist bathing. The figure is tightly wrapped around his legs, with the same black fabric draping down from his head and melting into the floor, cascading out from the bathtub like a faucet. The viewer stares down at the subject, the form is vaguely recognizable as human from the exposed flesh of the shoulders. The figure adopts a pose of mourning, hunched over the edge of the tub with his thoughts, represented by the black fabric, pouring out unrestrained onto the floor. The parallel horizontal lines of the image are slightly skewed, creating an unfocused, dreamlike perspective. The shadows from the faucet and dial almost unrealistically distorted, dripping down the wall and into the tub, leading the eye to the figure and then around with his contorted body to the pool of fabric at the bottom left corner.