Flowers behind bars. Commonly, Flowers are associated with beauty, innocence, and vulnerability.
Our freedoms, desires, and hopes are often locked behind steel bars physically or because of social or other barriers.
In the past, allegory used to be a way to express messages beyond the officially allowed. The artist here shows skills most of our contemporaries long forget, focusing instead on the physical: objects and their monetary value. The message here is clear and well beyond the ordinary.
The original is painted with acrylic paint on cotton canvas supported with corrugated board. There is no need to cut a tree to use a wooden stretcher.
I paint our inner landscapes. I am the painter of the soul... Read more…