Persephone makes mythology a tool to represents the rejuvenation of the tree of life and spring.
Andre Malraux, utterly timeless art made visible.
Unseen images, the basket of flowers associated with fecundity, are familiar. The Greek myth narrates Persephone's abduction by Hades into the underworld. The tree of life grew, its branches stretching toward complexity. Persephone ultimately seizes command of her destiny and assumes the role of the underworld queen. More than one reality certainly exists in otherworlds. Persephone's journey signifies a descent into the somber aspects of life such as winter and mortality, while her emergence back to the surface represents the rebirth, growth, and rejuvenation of spring.
Being able to feel, express and (where necessary) control your emotions will contribute hugely to your life, what you experience may not exist. She questions why certain visual languages attain recognition and value. The exhibition suggests that painting remains in a constant state of renewal and rebirth. Persephone captures the fleeting nature of our existence.
Odd images that never show crises of confidence in bizarre are imbued with an existential message about the human condition. The hope and promise of spring and summer give way to decay and death before the cycle renews again.
Persephone is a symbol of spring, as a symbol of a revolt against fate, the completion of an old life and the vessel for a new one.
We think there is natural art genetics in every viewer, and at the origin of a commitment to ‘going further’ in both art and life, along ceremonies like the Mysteries of Osiris that celebrated the god of the underworld’s rebirth, or the basket of flowers, associated with fecundity. The prunus evoked the beauty of winter, the peony spring, the lotus summer, and the chrysanthemum integrity and autumn.
The benefits of making pictures are never all or nothing, Persephone said, but instead exist on a continuum. It’s really puzzling, but everything is possible with artworks.
The invisible weirdness of art made visible.
What is a piece of evergreen advice you would give to collectors? Life isn't weird, it's just the people in it at the arrival of spring. We will forever guard the eternal spring.
Urban Grasshopper transcending time and place. This is obviously way out there in terms of strangeness.
Too much care can sabotage your picture.s Fascinating, but sad story.
We artists are mythmakers, and we participate with everybody else in the social construction of reality, expressing everything from direct quotations to the unsayable.
Helen Mayer Harrison, Each flower possesses a unique essence, embodying the individuality that lies within each of us.
Persephone captures the transient, fleeting nature of existence through the captivating aesthetic of flowers. Despite their ephemeral presence, flowers hold profound expressions of human emotions.
Portraiture tolds us fundamental truths about humanity, identity, passion and desire. Art enables people to get in touch with their deeper subconscious mind and intuition. This puts the whole person in touch with with their life giving well springs of thought and feeling.
Everyone knows what that a neural picture is supposed to look like, because the miscellaneous imaginarium of culture is terribly quirky, thinking about realism vs idealism art.
Life sprouts from cracks in the asphalt. So much drawing today is animation and the Internet. The picture went against conventions at a very young age and left its comfort zone. Life cannot help happening. All we have so far is theories.
Because odd pictures may be important to the understanding of human emotion, a large number of statistical methods have been developed to detect the fear behind the images.
All great boredom killers tell a story, artists have to take care that they do not fool themselves. There is a certain melancholy that befits the prose.
Sarcastic contemporary art is a transient glitch in the art movements. This simply contradicts factual reality.
Echoing 20th-century discussions around the essence of art in the face of mechanical reproduction, Persephone’s work confronts the boundary between creation by human hand and human thinking.