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"After the Rain"
“After the Rain”
29.7cm X 42cm
Collage
2005
“Colourful forms gleam in the dim sunlight, half crystalline, half organic shapes that intimate a posthuman world growing from our leftovers. Man's presence in this landscape inevitably signifies his own demise. The painting doesn't tell us whether they are perfectly still, cliff-like, or whether they pulsate and move. We are in Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst's depiction of a world regenerating from mass destruction, sprouting new life forms from decaying bodies and weapons. WW2 images of American bombers over the Japanese mainland, fighter jets exploding in the dark sky over the ocean and the blinding mushroom that hung above Hiroshima are transformed, incorporating the potential for regeneration and not just destruction, where life grows from the ruins”.
"After the Rain"
“After the Rain”
29.7cm X 42cm
Collage
2005
“Colourful forms gleam in the dim sunlight, half crystalline, half organic shapes that intimate a posthuman world growing from our leftovers. Man's presence in this landscape inevitably signifies his own demise. The painting doesn't tell us whether they are perfectly still, cliff-like, or whether they pulsate and move. We are in Europe after the Rain, Max Ernst's depiction of a world regenerating from mass destruction, sprouting new life forms from decaying bodies and weapons. WW2 images of American bombers over the Japanese mainland, fighter jets exploding in the dark sky over the ocean and the blinding mushroom that hung above Hiroshima are transformed, incorporating the potential for regeneration and not just destruction, where life grows from the ruins”.