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STRANGER

Vanessa Stefanova

Created in 2021.

This idea came to mind a few months ago after a guy who was learning to be a journalist asked Vanessa for an interview, she eventually asked for it to be removed from everywhere. After pondering on this idea for a while Vanessa began to realise that most, if not all the people in her life don't really or entirely know her. Some had been in her life the entire time and couldn't even tell you her pass times, other's Vanessa had just met and after a few meetings they still hadn't figured out she's an artist (which is what her life revolves around).

Imagine every second of your life is written in a book, the book grows each day and someone comes along and rips out a few paragraphs and runs off as if they've figured you out 100%. That's what Vanessa painted here, the person runs off and in the background flails the page into the wind as birds pick off the words and leave them scattered. No one ever truly knows you and no one ever will.