A raft the size of a door, and a cruise ship the size of a city block, and the two old men on the raft are not looking up.
They are playing dominoes. Elbows down, backs curved, a game already deep enough that the ship passing behind them is somebody else’s problem. Luna cut them as black stencils, crisp at the middle and soft at the edges where the spray drifted, on plaster the colour of a wall that has stood in the sun for forty years. Cracks. A patch where somebody painted over something once.
The bit people describe twice
One domino is electric turquoise, and it is falling. Everything else in the picture is black, cream and faded pastel. Your eye goes straight to that one tile, mid-air, mid-fall, and that is where the joke lands and then quietly stops being a joke. The men have the dignity. The ship full of people has the view and misses it entirely.
Luna works this way on purpose. One hot colour, one wall that has seen things, no words anywhere, and the point sits there deadpan until you get it. As one critic put it, the electric turquoise domino is the punchy focal point that balances the whole thing.
Where it ends up living
This one belongs in a kitchen or over a bar. Somewhere people stand with a drink and lean in. You will explain the domino roughly nine hundred times, and you will enjoy it every time.
Getting it up there
It is a high quality canvas print of Luna’s digital artwork, stretched over solid wood an inch and a quarter deep, with the image running around the sides so there is no bare white edge. It arrives ready to hang — one nail, two minutes, no framer and no surprise bill. The weave and the matte surface give the plaster and the overspray something to sit on, and a window opposite gives you the picture back instead of your lamp.
Portrait. The 16 x 20 in (41 x 51 cm) is preselected at $149 and suits most walls. Drop to 12 x 16 in (30 x 41 cm) at $129 for a narrow stretch of wall, or go 18 x 24 in (46 x 61 cm) at $229 if it is going above furniture. Made to order, so nobody on your street has this one, and shipping is free within the continental US.
One honest thing
It is a joke with a point, and it is loud. Black, cream, and one hit of turquoise. If you want something soft and quiet to sit behind the sofa, this is not it.
If it made you laugh, take it home. If you want to see how far Luna pushes the one-colour trick, the rest of her work is on Printasso — or follow her and you will see the next one before your Miami friend sends it to you.
