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Eighteen Hundred Thousand - A dark portrait head in a red helmet or hood appears before a blue starry ground, with a white panel and red stars…

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Eighteen Hundred Thousand

2025-12-13

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Size
approx. 24 × 36 in

Role: primary_artwork

Raw title: Eighteen Hundred Thousand

Aliases: Eighteen Hundred Thousand, eighteenhundredthousand

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Ali is rendered as icon and mask, surrounded by stars, red helmet-like form, and a small inset echo. The piece turns athletic fame into a cosmic burden, making the heroic face feel both monumental and scratched raw by repetition.

Song Pair

Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter

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Source

source filename: eighteenhundredthousand.heic
site image: art-030-eighteen-hundred-thousand.jpg

Tags

Visible

boxer 16red sun / red star 15mask 17fool/hero 18icon 18teeth 17resolve 14doubling 14portrait 40sun / star 16

Colors

grayorange / brownbluered

Subjects

Muhammad Ali

Part of

Red Sun / Fool / OverexposureBoxer / Ring / Hero-BodyMask / Face / Symbol-Person

Connectedness #10 of 128

Manual Priority Evidence

  • boxer (!!!)
  • helmet (!!)
  • mask (!?)
  • double (!?)
  • stars (!!)
  • red stars (!)

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Song Pairing: Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter

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Source Material

Eighteen Hundred Thousand reference video

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