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Elon Musk Capital One Arena January 2025
£700.00
W 510 x H 355mm watercolour on 300gsm Fabriano Artistico paper, unframed.
This watercolour presents Elon Musk in the charged moment of saluting a crowd of supporters during Donald J. Trump’s inauguration at the Capital One Arena in 2025. The gesture - bold and historically fraught - draws on a salute widely associated with the Nazis, yet afterwards it was remediated to read as an intimate, almost affectionate action.
Set against the backdrop of Trump’s re-election and the surrounding ceremony, the painting explores how powerful symbols can be transformed - or ambiguous - in their meaning depending on context and intention. Some would say there is no ambiguity here though.
Set against the backdrop of Trump’s re-election and the surrounding ceremony, the painting explores how powerful symbols can be transformed - or ambiguous - in their meaning depending on context and intention. Some would say there is no ambiguity here though.
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