Floral Paintings
Flower Paintings
These paintings evoke and celebrate the glory of Nature as a force of creation, life and raw beauty manifesting as the living mandalas we call "flowers". The very purpose of a flower's life is to be unabashedly beautiful; to allure, enchant, and ultimately seduce her audience through her magnificent colour, energy, shape and scent. Rich symbols of creation, they contain within their flowing petal-folds a transmutative magic which can transform the mundane into the sacred through the wondrous alchemy of the appreciative eye. Flowers are often overused in art, desensitizing us to their actual resplendence. These paintings invite us to become present to the depth and splendour of these utterly magnificent things, and reclaim them from the wallpaper of our lives.
Some time ago I came across these words by Mati Klarwein: "There's something I keep saying about how important it is to remember that flowers are the sexual organs of plants. What I'm usually trying to say is, what could be more 'spiritual' than the evanescent erotic beauty of, say, stockings or lacy underwear as floral like decoration surrounding the profound mating dance which leads to us being here. Thinking of things this way cultivates an appreciation of art in which false (read: 'verbal') contradictions are resolved. Man-made 'opposites' like 'sacred' and 'profane' go to bed together and make divine little goddesses who remind us that Nature doesn't speak in words.."
Click HERE for Exhibit-V's video piece on the Flor de Vida show.
Some time ago I came across these words by Mati Klarwein: "There's something I keep saying about how important it is to remember that flowers are the sexual organs of plants. What I'm usually trying to say is, what could be more 'spiritual' than the evanescent erotic beauty of, say, stockings or lacy underwear as floral like decoration surrounding the profound mating dance which leads to us being here. Thinking of things this way cultivates an appreciation of art in which false (read: 'verbal') contradictions are resolved. Man-made 'opposites' like 'sacred' and 'profane' go to bed together and make divine little goddesses who remind us that Nature doesn't speak in words.."
Click HERE for Exhibit-V's video piece on the Flor de Vida show.
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