“Water Snake”
Kyle Joedicke

Painting
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 30 in.
2022

This piece is a particularly striking departure from my usual body of work. For this piece, I have chosen a much more visceral and jagged approach to the design. The snake, or great horned snake, in Iroquois and Algonquin tradition represents a malignant spirit that was known to capsize canoes, and attack humans. In this piece I have tried to capture the spiritual struggle between good and evil, as well as using a palette of cooling colours for the background to contrast the evocative reds and yellows that make up the central figure.

$650