“Skinny” 皮包骨 – 71x9cm – Oil on Canvas, 2010

A perfect “Hour Glass” figure – and yet it is obviously distorted and perverse. How thin is ‘too thin’? How much pressure, both internal and external, is put on women to lose weight in order to be considered beautiful? This painting highlights the self-consciousness of ‘bathing suit anxiety’.

一個完美的「沙漏」人物，可是身材卻明顯地歪曲且不合常理。瘦到什麼程度才叫做「太瘦」呢？為了看起來美麗，不知道有多少的內在和外在壓力讓女性開始減肥。這幅畫強調的是「泳衣焦慮」的自我意識。

Oil on Canvas Surrealism Oil Painting by Derek Murphy www.derekmurphyart.com

“Endangered Species” 瀕臨絕種物種– 117x91cm- Oil on Canvas, 2010

Asian mermaid in a lunchbox, paired with disposable chopsticks. This painting draws attention to the fact that we are literally eating ourselves out of our home, not only by exhausting the natural food supply, but also through our disposable eating habits, which create enormous excesses of waste and garbage.

午餐盒裡的亞洲美人魚，還配有一雙免洗筷。這幅畫讓我們注意到一件事，由於我們都在外用餐，不只逐漸耗盡天然食物，再加上用完即丟的飲食壞習慣，糟蹋了大量食物也產生大量垃圾。

Oil on Canvas Surrealism Oil Painting by Derek Murphy www.derekmurphyart.com