{"product_id":"wick","title":"Wick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA brutally stark image of mental resilience; a woman stands engulfed in flames, her body becoming the wick through which a fire is sustained. She remains still and composed, holding her ground as she burns, undamaged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWICK explores the human cost of a system that consumes the people who sustain it. Our energy, passions, dreams and abilities become fuel, channelled into labour, taxation and a machinery of perpetual growth. It questions a way of life we have come to accept as natural, and how much of ourselves we surrender simply to exist within it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer beauty is deliberate: a testament to the extraordinary strength within humanity, and our capacity to retain dignity amid suffering. This tension between beauty and brutality reflects in Malum’s wider work, which explores human nature and the ways in which we exist, shape and endure world around us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWICK asks how much a person can give before there is nothing left to burn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eImage dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 120 × 49 cm (height × width)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFramed dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 130 × 59 cm (height × width)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedium:\u003c\/b\u003e Fine art print on canvas (Neptune artistic matte 400 gsm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinish:\u003c\/b\u003e Satin varnish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/b\u003e black wooden framed canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition size:\u003c\/b\u003e 5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Empirical Malum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55691376525639,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1015\/6159\/8279\/files\/WICK.jpg?v=1793733338","url":"https:\/\/www.artofprotestgallery.com\/products\/wick","provider":"Art of Protest","version":"1.0","type":"link"}