'Unfurling Fronds' features layers of cut paper: swirling curves of gold are superimposed over a dark, shadowy feminine form that rises up behind them. The piece evokes the Norse Goddess Freya, goddess of spring, immanent in Nature. Silent, dark, hidden just behind the fabric of creation, she presides over the unfurling fronds of life's processes. According to the ancient philosophy of yin and yang, it is the feminine principle that is dark. In the Jewish scriptures, we read: Dark Am I Yet Lovely (Song of Songs). Hence, the Goddess is 'dark', playing hide-and-seek behind the veils of illusion, seen only by the light which defines her.


Unfurling Fronds

Medium: Silhouette paper-cut. Cut by hand using a scalpel.

Dimensions: Unframed: 18 x 15 cm

Date: August 2010

Comments:
From imagination. To evoke the Goddess immanent in Nature.



Price: £SOLD. In a private collection.