An Inevitable Truth, 2024, oil and silk string, 55 x 32 in. / 139.7 x 81.28 cm.

An Inevitable Truth, Barbara Bose, 2024, oil and silk string, 55 x 32 in. / 139.7 x 81.28 cm.

(Framed size is 66 x 42.5.) A surrealist painting about parental estrangement. A naked young woman is constructing a chimney in which to incinerate the memory of her childhood and so escape the bond with her mother. Despite her elaborate plan, a connection is still very much there underneath it all