This selection of paintings emulates a confidence and understanding of the importance of celebrating and documenting the fragility and supremacy of humankind. The artist has elevated his subjects which are already found on a pedestal, revealing true beauty which the artist sees in nature and humans. He has quietly attributed a greater sense of power to the sitter by highlighting them and all mankind's delight of attention and enjoyment of one's own beauty. The scale of the paintings gives them even greater grandeur, as they are larger then life and demand attention from the viewer.
The artist's inclusion of nature by adorning his subjects with a wreath of beautiful flowers is done to not only heighten the aesthetics of the work but also to give greater meaning to the idea of beauty within time. When one sees a painted flower, an element in nature whose life cycle is one of the quickest, we are reminded sharply of the fragility of life and death. In all of these works the artist is trying to capture a moment in-between these two states, the moments when the flower is at its most beautiful and tenuous; in full bloom.
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Earlier Event: January 16
Material(i)sation - a Group Exhibition
Later Event: May 13
Manuscript - A Group Exhibition