Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Toeknuckles
This is a painting by an Australian artist called Amy Edwards. It’s an older work of hers and remains a particular favourite of mine. It’s the sort of object I can imagine a witch keeping in her larder. Poor little bunny! It’s called Lagermorph and as Amy says herself “I think wordplays and puns are WAY underrated”!
Very recently, she posted another critter in a jar painting over on her LJ.
I love it! It’s incredibly beautiful but morbid at the same time. As with a lot of Amy’s work there is a story to go with it:
rat was so beautiful that it drove crow, the jealous lover, out of his mind. eventually he was driven so insane by the whole world looking at rat that he imprisoned rat in a bottle. in the middle of nowhere.
a couple of times a year, he would fly to look admire how beautiful his rat in a bottle was, then fly away again, leaving rat as a prisoner for all eternity.
One of the things I like about Amy is how she fuses European inspired fairy imagery with Australia’s unique flora and fauna, such as in this image below. It makes her work very distinctive.
Amy is currently re-evaluating her role as an artist and is exploring new directions - I wish her well on her future endeavours be they artistic or otherwise.
Music: ‘Hey Rabbit’, Fionn Regan
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