The Abandoned Squid House (Print)

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• Museum-quality giclée print on heavyweight archival fine art paper, designed to last for generations.
  

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About the Artwork:

The Abandoned Squid House is an original painting inspired by Squidward's house form SpongeBob SquarePants, reimagined through my Abandoned Collection as a deteriorating home left behind after years of neglect.

The windows are broken. The entrance has been boarded shut with "KEEP OUT" tagged across it. Trash and graffiti have overtaken the property, the FOR SALE sign has collapsed into the yard, and an old fry cook's hat has been left behind. Near the top of the house, a familiar red outline of Squidward's head has been graffitied onto the building, complete with an arrow and one cruel word: 

"LOSER"

Squidward is a strange character to grow up with. As children, many of us saw him as the miserable adult who couldn't appreciate how much fin everyone else was having. Then we got older and started understanding him a little more than we expected to.

He wanted to be an artist. He wanted his work to matter. He wanted recognition, beauty, peace, and some evidence that his life might eventually become larger than the job he hated going to every day. There's something painfully human about wanting more from your life while slowly becoming afraid that more might never come.

Maybe that's why the word "LOSER" feels different here.

It's easy for disappointment to become identity. A failed dream becomes I'm a failure. A painting nobody appreciates becomes I'm not an artist. Someone else's success becomes evidence that we're falling behind. Eventually, we can become so accustomed to judging ourselves that we start vandalizing our own sense of worth before anybody else gets the opportunity. 

In this painting, I imagined Squidward's home after all of that has gone quiet. The job is over. The neighbors are gone. Nobody is interrupting his afternoon anymore. Even one of his self-portraits has survived as graffiti on the side of the abandoned building... a subtle tribute to his legacy.

Maybe Squidward was never the loser... Maybe he was simply someone who wanted desperately to be seen and spent too much of his life believing that being overlooked meant he had nothing worth seeing.

Like many paintings in my Abandoned Collection, this piece through something that has always been preserved in our memories deep into the passage of time. Not every artist gets recognized. Not every dream happens the way we imagined.

That doesn't make the person who dreamed it a failure. 

The Abandoned Squid House is an independent artistic interpretation inspired by Squidward's house from SpongeBob SquarePants and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Nickelodeon, Paramount, SpongeBob SquarePants, or its respective rights holders. 

I created this series to reconnect with my inner child. It’s nice to take a second to remember the things I loved when I was younger... Nothing lasts forever, so appreciate things before they’re gone! I hope this collection will help you in a similar way.

Print Details

• Unframed

• 8 × 10 inches

• Free shipping within the U.S.

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