{"title":"Equilibrium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMay 11, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn EQUILIBRIUM, Anna Kennel presents a body of work that reflects on the fragile balance between humanity and the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer finely detailed paintings depict landscapes and figures in quiet states of transformation, where ecosystems appear subtly altered and nature carries the traces of human presence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than offering dystopian visions, Kennel insists on the possibility of balance, regeneration, and renewal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTimed with the Spring Equinox and Earth Day, Equilibrium unfolds as a visual meditation on biodiversity, responsibility, and the delicate systems that sustain life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"still-life-with-onions","title":"Natura Morta","description":"\u003cp\u003eNatura Morta presents an understated still life in which fruit and onions are rendered with softness and quiet attention. Set against a luminous, open background, the forms feel suspended in time, their presence shaped by subtle shifts of light and color.  Color becomes atmosphere and form becomes sensation, inviting a slow and intimate way of looking. The everyday is transformed into a moment of stillness.  Executed in oil on canvas and presented framed, Natura Morta reflects the quiet poetry of ordinary things.                             Anna Kennel is a Sicilian painter and printmaker based in Palermo. Trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Palermo and the International Schools of Graphic Arts in Venice and Urbino, she has been active since the early 1970s. Her work draws from botanical and architectural forms to explore nature, balance, and regeneration through a Mediterranean sensibility. 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The woman’s calm gaze and grounded posture transform the image into an allegory of Earth as both nurturer and witness.  Mater Terra is a symbolic portrait of ecological consciousness, reflecting Kennel’s inquiry into environmental vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Kennel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56880008823116,"sku":null,"price":13500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/170_a.jpg?v=1774866658"},{"product_id":"jacobs-ladder","title":"Jacob's Ladder","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa Scala di Giacobbe presents a solitary figure ascending a ladder suspended between two dark, imposing planes. Beyond them, a pale blue sky opens: quiet, distant, and uncertain. The scene is stripped of excess, focusing attention on the act of ascent itself.  The ladder becomes a charged symbol: a fragile passage between confinement and possibility, human effort and the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough controlled brushwork and subtle shifts of light, Kennel creates a suspended moment in which architecture, body, and sky hold one another in tension. Referencing the biblical vision while remaining firmly contemporary, Jacob's Ladder reflects on aspiration, constraint, and the quiet persistence of human movement within uncertain spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Kennel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56880008855884,"sku":null,"price":15500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/171_a.jpg?v=1774866716"},{"product_id":"an-unexpected-guest","title":"An Unexpected Guest","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Unexpected Guest confronts the viewer with a stark image of environmental imbalance. 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Red and orange pulse across the surface, dissolving depth and immersing the viewer in the charged scene.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe work evokes a moment of irreversible change, where beauty and danger coexist in fragile equilibrium.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Kennel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56880008921420,"sku":null,"price":14500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/173_a.jpg?v=1774866827"},{"product_id":"hours-of-light","title":"Hours of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eHours of Light explores landscape through light, space, and time. Vertical divisions organize the composition like openings or passages, holding light within calm, defined areas. Layers of blue and green pigment create a surface that feels worn and atmospheric rather than descriptive. Delicate branches appear as soft shadows, repeated across the canvas as traces rather than literal forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLight is treated as something contained and measured, not dramatic or illustrative. The landscape is presented as a lived space, shaped slowly by time, human presence, and subtle change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Kennel is a Sicilian painter and printmaker whose practice spans painting, etching, and lithography. Active since the early 1970s, she trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Palermo and at the International Schools of Graphic Arts in Venice and Urbino. 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More field than atmosphere, it opens the composition, contrasting with the solidity of the wall and reinforcing the work’s stillness and temporal pause. In this restrained visual field, shadow becomes a trace of memory and the wall a silent register of passing time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Kennel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56880008986956,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/175_a.jpg?v=1774866926"},{"product_id":"ikebana","title":"Ikebana","description":"\u003cp\u003eIkebana transforms the Japanese art of floral arrangement into a quiet ecological paradox. A leafless, contorted tree rises from an industrial barrel, its branches hosting birds, fallen leaves, shells, and fragments of life.  Elements carefully “arranged” yet displaced.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe composition is delicate and unsettling. 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