Goodbye Caveman - Two stacked rectangular panels sit on a deep blue ground: a pale upper face-like square and a pink lower…

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Goodbye Caveman

2026-03-02

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Size
approx. 24 × 36 in

Role: primary_artwork

Raw title: Goodbye Caveman

Aliases: Goodbye Caveman, goodbyecaveman

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Recall

The stacked panels and blue surround make the image feel like a memory system or shrine to something buried below the surface. It reads as grief organized into architecture, with the upper image hovering like a fossil, dream, or missing body.

Song Pair

Stina Nordenstam - Soon After Christmas

Visual Text

indecipherable letters [burgundy, beige, middle, lower rectangle] [needs review]

Source

source filename: goodbyecaveman.heic
site image: art-023-goodbye-caveman.jpg

Tags

Visible

Colors

orange / brownblue

Part of

Connectedness #105 of 128

Manual Priority Evidence

  • girl (!)
  • longing (!)
  • grief (!!)
  • stacked panels (!!)
  • blue (!)
  • vertical stacking (!)
  • melancholic (!)
  • buried (!)

Related Works

Listen

Song Pairing: Stina Nordenstam - Soon After Christmas

Instagram Discussion

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Works Cited

  • Two paintings, dual reference needs URL photograph by Paschal, Jan 12, 2022 — at an ex-girlfriend's house

    Direct photo reference: the two paintings as they hung together.

    Two paintings, dual reference
    from the studio Two paintings, dual reference — photograph by Paschal, Jan 12, 2022 — at an ex-girlfriend's house
  • As I Lay Dying verified William Faulkner