{"product_id":"painting-eric-sande-steeplechase-gymnasium-oil-on-canvas-stretched-200cm-x-160cm","title":"Painting - Eric Sande ‘Steeplechase Gymnasium’ - acrylic on canvas, stretched - 200cm x 160cm","description":"\u003ch2 data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"639\"\u003eSteeplechase Gymnasium\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis painting reads like a body-as-world where everything transforms into everything else - the same thick outline runs continuously from the yellow dancing figure into a bird's neck, into a chain of shells, into a house, as if all forms share one substance, the way they do in dreams or oral cosmologies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe scales at dead center feel like the fulcrum of the piece, marking a turn from the candy-bright, playful imagery around it (fish, snails, a flower-roofed cottage, a mermaid) toward a darker, more architectural register on the lower right - a black cavity opening onto a golden domed palace, a figure held inside a ribcage-like interior, a bloodstained staircase, a bare cactus, as though the painting traces an arc from innocence toward power, confinement, or mortality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe big pink bird-head on the right, its open mouth revealing the palace scene inside, reinforces that sense of one continuous body containing multitudes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitengela Hot Glass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49028041572608,"sku":null,"price":880000.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2279\/9925\/files\/945bffd1-cda9-45c7-9f80-26568366daba.jpg?v=1784363143","url":"https:\/\/www.kitengela.glass\/products\/painting-eric-sande-steeplechase-gymnasium-oil-on-canvas-stretched-200cm-x-160cm","provider":"Kitengela Glass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}