In Panda and I, a child is held within black as a condition of intimacy and dependence rather than comfort. The embrace suggests reassurance, yet black absorbs any stabilizing context, suspending the gesture without resolution. Vulnerability and attachment remain present, but unresolved.

Tobias Keene is a 3rd generation figurative painter whose practice is grounded in sustained looking and inherited discipline.

OIL ON BOARD

60 x 48

152.4 x 121.92

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