Thomias Radin What a time to be alive, 2022/24

Thomias Radin's limited edition print takes the artist's painting by the same name as departure. The center of the composition is dominated by a muscular male figure wearing blue track pants with red and white stripes. The figure’s head and arms are rendered in abstracted black line drawings stressing the movement of the figure. The background is visually split into three main elements: marble, water, land, and sky. The upper part is composed of blue and yellow tones represents a pastel sky with a black sun with the white contours of a child’s profile. The middle part of the background uses green and off-white shades to suggest the land, and the bottom foreground is painted with darker blue and green shades to represent the ocean. The marble-like patterns in the foreground are painted in panels that are interrupted by a man’s face floating in dark black water and the blue figure of a foot. Two diagonal orange lines running along the figure’s sides create perspective and a sense of the passage of time. In the lower left-hand corner of the painting, the artist has included a message in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that roughly translates to “trust in a higher being.”