THE BOND SERIES
THE BIRTH OF THE GROOM (sold) 2007
Oil and acrylic on canvas
174x148cm
THE BIRTH OF THE GROOM (sold) 2007
Oil and acrylic on canvas
174x148cm
Bonds is a series that focuses on relationships. It does so by considering them in their different forms: as relationships of affection, relationships involving sensuality and relationships of blood.
'The Birth Of The Groom' interprets the theme of family. Deciding the person to whom make a lifetime vow is an act that requires courage and clarity. The woman pictured in this painting has such an intense desire to find this right person and posses him that he actually is her very own creature. She does not meet her groom, he is her own projection, a son already born a grown-up. It is as if she had married a part of herself. The idea of a son-groom also involves the dimension of time. The bride appears to us as though she were a timeless survivor of generational cycles, echoing Buddhist traditions that have it that bonds span not a single lifetime but many. One's groom in this lifetime may have been therefore one's son in another. A word also on the baby doll and the rose on the floor: they are symbols. The former lying on a very precious cushion testifies to how much children may mean to parents. The latter, a rose fallen from the bride's wreath, is a sort of memento mori as opposed to a new life: that of the child to be born and the new life of the two people together.
'The Birth Of The Groom' interprets the theme of family. Deciding the person to whom make a lifetime vow is an act that requires courage and clarity. The woman pictured in this painting has such an intense desire to find this right person and posses him that he actually is her very own creature. She does not meet her groom, he is her own projection, a son already born a grown-up. It is as if she had married a part of herself. The idea of a son-groom also involves the dimension of time. The bride appears to us as though she were a timeless survivor of generational cycles, echoing Buddhist traditions that have it that bonds span not a single lifetime but many. One's groom in this lifetime may have been therefore one's son in another. A word also on the baby doll and the rose on the floor: they are symbols. The former lying on a very precious cushion testifies to how much children may mean to parents. The latter, a rose fallen from the bride's wreath, is a sort of memento mori as opposed to a new life: that of the child to be born and the new life of the two people together.