Sunset Painting - Twenty Mile Zoned by Tyler Alpern

Twenty Mile Zoned is a painting by Tyler Alpern which was uploaded on January 19th, 2008.

Twenty Mile Zoned

The worlds of various insane people collide into one in 'Twenty Mile Zoned.' My great aunt Frieda survived the holocaust, smuggled money out of... more

by Tyler Alpern

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48.000 x 56.000 inches

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Title

Twenty Mile Zoned

Artist

Tyler Alpern

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

The worlds of various insane people collide into one in 'Twenty Mile Zoned.' My great aunt Frieda survived the holocaust, smuggled money out of Germany in cakes of soap and had many amazing experiences is depicted here toward the end of her life. She is performing elaborate funerals for cockroaches roadside during a medically induced episode of madness. Above her is a billboard that reads "Rita Hayworth lost her mind" (Rita had advanced Alzheimer's). Speeding by driving on the wrong side of the road is a psychotic Rosemary Clooney who challenged God to prove his love to her by letting her survive that reckless stunt.

In the foreground singer Dory Previn is being pulled over not for speeding but for screaming in a twenty-mile zone as recalled in her most famous song. The passenger is Soon Yi Previn. Mr. Whisper (the name Dory called the imaginary voices in her head) is visible and warns "Beware of young girls." Beware of Young Girls happens to title Dory’s song about good friend Mia Farrow who stole and then married Dory's husband André. Coincidentally Mia and André Previn's adopted daughter Soon Yi eventually stole Mia's own longtime lover Woody Allen away from her. Beware of young girls, indeed. Over head is the London bound plane Dory cracked up on. In the back seat is the Mad Hatter eating a live canary sandwich (one of my Dad's first patients at the asylum did that). And yes, there is more. In the background are my parents as bride and groom because they met in a psychiatric hospital where they both worked. But my message is more about tolerance than insanity. No matter how differently we interpret reality, no matter what our world view or morality is, we all still exist in the same place together...in a twenty mile zone.

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January 19th, 2008