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| Vanitas With Vaporizer by Polly Jones |
Hello and Happy Halloween to you! I think this ones done. It pretty much wore me out. 30" by 40" used to not seem so large until I got on this spate of small paintings. I plan on putting it in the annual Center for Contemporary Art fundraiser auction that will open on November 7th.
Here's a pretty interesting link to the term Vanitas in Wickepedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas
I like this theme because it conveniently combines my love for still life subject matter with a desire to keep in mind the fleeting quality of life. The blue sage flower shows a transition of bloom down the stem, from fresh to old and withered. I believe the good here on earth is just a pale hint of what's to come in the next life. So in keeping with this I have used some of my vintage papers from The Golden Encyclopedia that include an Egyptian mummy and also a (kind of cartoon like) chart of how to butcher a pig. I used the old green vaporizer tub to paint because of how it looks and also because I love the idea of ephemeral vapor. I've heard that the use in Ecclesiastes of the word "vanity" can be interpreted as "breath."
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3 comments:
Polly~ very lovely work.
beautiful spiritually*
Thank you so much Kara, I was feeling like maybe I had over-shared a bit. I never know how much to go into about my motives etc.
This is so fun and full of life. I love all the detail too.
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