Single Mum (yellow)
Single Mum (yellow)
Signed Print
Stik
106 x 40cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint, 2011
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Meaning & Analysis
Single Mum (yellow) depicts a standing stick figure embracing a smaller figure clinging to its side. Printed in 2011, this signed tri-colour screen print on Somerset Card is an edition of 50.
A formative piece in Stik's body of work, Single Mum (yellow) is an exemplary print in terms of his compositions of either lone figures, or duos. The standing figure is quietly static, despite an imbalance of weight accentuated by the diverging gazes of both figures. A sense of disquietude can be felt from this outward and opposite directional focus; while equally, a calming comfort can be inferred from the figures’ closeness and maternal bond.
The vibrancy of the yellow backdrop can be seen in many of Stik's other stick figure prints, and carry through a nod to simplicity and directness of Street Art and its existence reflecting reality as he says, “The street is like a theatre”.
Like Stik's other six-line stickmen in his Standing Figure series, there seems to be a consistent vulnerability and sense of isolation conveyed through the seemingly non-expressive faces and fixed statures; reflecting the nature of urban habitation, a theme that punctuates Stik's works.
