Title:
Venus Rising from the Earth
Medium:
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
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Dimensions
30.000 x 55.000 inches
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Description:
The woman sleeps; she smoulders.
Her heart beats, bleeds, breaks.
From the fissure, a flower.
Sentience is essential;
Surrender is not possible.
Venus Rising from the Earth was inspired by a trip to Chile's Atacama Desert with my 20-year-old daughter. While there, we walked among hundreds of geysers as they sprang up from the core of a dormant volcano as the sun rose over the Andes. The jagged black silhouette of the mountains remained in my mind, as did the memory of the powerful forces of the volcano that lay just below our feet.
When I came across a photograph of a 1930s painting by Felice Casorati in the classical style, I knew I had found an image I could transform into the embodiment of this experience. The long-dormant power of this woman, garbed in the brilliant red of a Renaissance cardinal, has finally begun to burst forth--not in flames, however, but as a magnificent, glowing flower.
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painting, painting paintings, venus paintings, earth paintings, volcano paintings, geyser paintings, red paintings, black paintings, rising paintings, mist paintings, amaryllis paintings, renaissance paintings, cardinal paintings
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