Paintings
- African Snake, The
- All in a whirlpool
- Apartheid Sunflowers
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Blocked
- Chameleon King
- Fish With Flowers (1987)
- Flowers with Shadow
- Greed King Has Doubts
- Leaves
- Mamma Africa
- Moon Wall Flowers Snake
- Portrait of Eldon
- Reaching Alignment
- Red King Cannot Camouflage
- Relationships
- Self Portrait
- Self portrait (1985)
- Slain With A Flower
- Split / Opposites
- Teapot Fades, The
- The Snake Returns
- The Vase Cracks, The Snake is Flung
- We Three Kings
- Yellow teapot, yellow face (1985)
14
Mar
| Moon Wall Flowers Snake |
| Fine Arts - Paintings |
| Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:11 |
 PRICE R41,667Oil on canvas W: 1100mm x H: 1200mm W: 43" x H: 47" Framed, but can be supplied framed or unframed. Here we see that the snake has crawled into a vase of flowers. A very ordinary 'domestic' situation. The contrast between the snake and the vase of flowers should disturb the viewer. Yet the beauty attracts. The white flowers all have black centres. The weight of the snake is around the thickest of the stems: the 'protea-like' flower. The yellow wall contrasts with the dark and disturbing skyscape. The moon is full and potent. There are no markings on the snake to keep the image clean and simple. The vase of flowers for me is a particularly potent apartheid image: the flowers/plants all have a shortened life span - they have been removed from their natural environment and although 'blooming beautifully' they are tainted with an inner decay. The snake therefore is displaying its mission - to bring to consciousness that which cannot (or will not) be 'seen' - the disharmony being created by the apartheid state. |