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Oil
- Dimensions Height 40in, Width 20in
- Categories Paintings under $1,000 Expressionism
"First I, like you, a spiritual being. Then I am human and this part of the human body that is, has a condition"
Progeria is a rare condition that is remarkable because its symptoms strongly resemble normal human aging, but occur in young children. It usually is not passed down through families. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome ("Progeria", or "HGPS") is caused by a mutation in the gene called LMNA (pronounced, lamin - a). The LMNA gene produces the Lamin A protein, which is the structural scaffolding that holds the nucleus of a cell together. Researchers now believe that the defective Lamin A protein makes the nucleus unstable. That cellular instability appears to lead to the process of premature aging in Progeria.
Progeria Research Foundation has now discovered that a drug called FTI, which they tested only on mice, appears to be repairing cells affected by projerin. Dr Gordon: 'FTI is the first drug that we discovered might help us to treat progeria.' Here you can see a gene that is misshapen due to projerin. Only 72 hours after FTI has been applied the cell appears regularly shaped.
When doing the painting I wanted to express the following:
Left top Corner – Leon did not want to be part of a statistic, but wanted to be remembered for the person he was. He reached out to other, forming a network of people around him that accelerated him a person and the art he loved so much
Right to corner – Progeria being such an aggressive decease there is now HOPE with the FTI drug that was discovered. The key to hope, and light in these special children’s lives, giving them wings to live a full life like all other children
The scull and hand, is the dark undertone all his work had, due to the depression he was suffering, being stuck in the body he had. Also to express the harshness of the decease taking life from the people born with it
The cells painted is to express the mutation that appears when the cells are deformed in the DNA, though it appears to be perfect, referring to the apple, the inside is not what it seems to be.
The turntable is just a contribution to the DJ work he did in the Antwoord.
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