{"product_id":"the-mirror-orginal-artwork-by-the-artist-michael-dole","title":"The Mirror","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"22\" data-end=\"602\"\u003eArtist Michael Dole’s \u003cem data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"56\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) stages a confrontation between a woman and her own doubled image. Two near-identical figures knot together on the floor, one facing us, the other turned inward, hair falling like a curtain over her face. It is not clear whether we are seeing two bodies, a reflection or the same self split in two. Skin is rendered in long, faceted strokes that make the bodies feel both sensual and slightly unreal, while the background dissolves into veils of pink, blue and yellow, like the residue of an advertisement that has been half scrubbed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"1388\"\u003eThis ambiguity is the point. \u003cem data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"645\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e is less a nude than a critique of the culture that produces nudes on tap. The painting sits in the tense space where self love, as sold by the wellness and beauty industries, morphs into obsession and self surveillance. The woman clings to herself because the world keeps asking her to be both subject and object, to perform confidence while quietly dismantling herself to fit the frame. Depression here does not appear as melodrama but as heaviness in the limbs, a slumped spine, a gaze that never quite meets ours. Dole refuses to give us a neat empowerment arc. Instead he holds up a mirror to a society that has turned self absorption into a survival strategy, then has the nerve to blame individuals for drowning in their own reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1643\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e is a painting that does not look away and does not let the viewer look away either. It asks a hard question: when we talk about loving ourselves, whose standard of love are we obeying and who is profiting from our perpetual dissatisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"1648\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1663\"\u003eSUMMARY\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"2032\"\u003eArtist Michael Dole’s \u003cem data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1699\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative, psychologically charged work that uses a doubled female figure to explore how contemporary culture turns self love into labour. Blurring the line between intimacy and performance, the painting exposes the illusion, obsession and quiet despair that sit beneath the glossy rhetoric of confidence and body positivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"2034\" data-end=\"2037\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"2039\" data-end=\"2052\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2082\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2082\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2066\"\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e: Michael Dole\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2110\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2110\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2094\"\u003eTitle\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem data-start=\"2096\" data-end=\"2108\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2111\" data-end=\"2129\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2129\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2121\"\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2130\" data-end=\"2163\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2163\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2142\"\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e: Acrylic on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2195\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2195\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2180\"\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: 91cm x 61cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2196\" data-end=\"2234\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2234\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2209\"\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Unique original (1\/1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2265\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2265\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2252\"\u003eOrientation\u003c\/strong\u003e: Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2266\" data-end=\"2315\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2315\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2281\"\u003eSignature\u003c\/strong\u003e: Signed and dated by the artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2316\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2329\"\u003eFraming\u003c\/strong\u003e: Supplied unframed, ready for custom framing to suit your space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Daughter Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51079092994343,"sku":null,"price":8400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9987\/3575\/files\/MichaelDole_TheMirror_Painting_2017_Insitu_1x1_01.jpg?v=1772239738","url":"https:\/\/www.daughtercollective.com\/products\/the-mirror-orginal-artwork-by-the-artist-michael-dole","provider":"Daughter Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}