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Red; mixed media on cradled wood panel; 20 x 40 (x 1.5) inches; painting surface is birch hardwood mounted to a basswood frame.

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Canadians love the colour red. It's a fact! Canadians wear more red than any other country. "I got married in red," says Ruby Fuller of Carmine, Manitoba. "I wear red every single day," Fuller states. "I've worn entirely red outfits to interviews, jury duty ... even funerals." Scientists have long studied why red is so appealing to Canadians. "It seems Canadians see red before any other colour," states Dr. Rufous Cardinal of the Munsell Institute. He states, "This might explain the Canadian penchant for violent sports like lacrosse and hockey -- oh, and all the rioting, too. Personally, I can get angry just looking at the flag." The femme fatale draped in red continues to be a powerful icon in the Canadian imagination. Says Rose Cassandra of Honeytruck, British Columbia: "I sexually manipulated a private detective *and* my husband into killing each other -- my husband poisoned the detective with arsenic-laced Chinese food and the detective, just before he died, shot my husband fourteen times -- so I could collect on a big fat insurance policy ... and the judge only gave me six months because he said I looked so lovely and not responsible in red."

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This painting is part of the "O Canada, O New England" show I'm having next Saturday with my friend Susan at artstream studios in Rochester, New Hampshire. I'll be posting more throughout next week.

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  1. as always, awesome painting with yet another equally compelling and biting shortie story-how much i love! wishing all the best with the show-i will be there-wearing all red and arsenic~

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  2. 'Ruby', 'Cardinal', 'Rose'...love it
    I love red, and I love the pic too :-)

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  3. Um, just noticed there's a hell of a lot of love there :)

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  4. i just had to look. wonderful writing, wonderful work.

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