Now, if you're like most people, you're probably asking yourself a question right about now:
Okay, what the fuck is up with the nun?!?
I'll tell you, to the extent that I know. This painting was found in the trash somewhere by a man called Moose. He rescued it, stretched and mounted the canvas, and displayed it for sale in his store, Picture Paradise. It was seen there and solicited for donation by a representative of The Museum of Bad Art, but Moose has to pay the mortgage somehow, so he held out for a paying customer. He knew that someday, someone would come along that could really appreciate what the nun has to offer. We saw it in the store and were fascinated, ("What is that nun doing to that llama's ass?") but couldn't quite decide to buy it for a while. ("Can we hang it in the guest room?") Eventually, we realized that we had to have her.
The nun's allure is manifold. There's the prurient/shocking/transgressive thing, of course. ("What is that nun doing to that llama's ass?") We dig that. But there are also some layers of enigma to it. ("What is that nun doing to that llama's ass?") And while you would not go so far as to call the painting style "subtle," or even exactly "good," and you might not even want to use "not bad," there's something undeniably haunting about the facial expressions involved. The nun's expression bespeaks some serious Catholic school trauma in the artist's past, but what really, really gets me is the expression on the face of the llama. There's something smug, something subtly complicit about it that you rarely see on the faces of llamas in paintings. And what's up with the leaf? Is it the proverbial "fig leaf"? Is it the artist's trick for dealing with the fact that whatever he or she was trying to accomplish in that part of the painting just wasn't working? Moose's theory of the whole piece is that it is not the product of a mind that has one unified thing going on at a time, if you know what I'm saying.
Besides which, I actually really like the overall composition, and it's a pretty blue.
The nun is privately held, so if you'd like to arrange a viewing you will need to contact us. In the unlikely event that you have any information about the creator of this enigmatic work, please let us know; she is unsigned, and we would love to be able to fill in that part of the tale. We'd also like to meet this person, if they're not too scary.