Forbidden Fruit
SKU:
002
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
per item
found wood, dried lemon with 22k gold leaf, acrylic painted air-dry clay, found stones, rattlesnake skin, leather mounted on wood base
10 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches
In this sculpture, multiple found and handmade materials are combined to create an awkward and macabre scene of death, decay, and decadence. The tantalizing 'golden fruit' of truth is dangled before this perfectly lipsticked mouth from the most hideously dead tree, offering a truth that is ill advised and damaging. The red lips contrast starkly against the rounded, white stones hinting at purity, burial and stoning. The base is wrapped in a python skin eluding to the snake in the Garden of Eden. The division between good and evil is palpable and yet obscure: Are the stones supporting the mouth or are they burying it? Is the mouth bad because it is eating this fruit or is the ill tree and the fruit the ultimate betrayal?
10 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches
In this sculpture, multiple found and handmade materials are combined to create an awkward and macabre scene of death, decay, and decadence. The tantalizing 'golden fruit' of truth is dangled before this perfectly lipsticked mouth from the most hideously dead tree, offering a truth that is ill advised and damaging. The red lips contrast starkly against the rounded, white stones hinting at purity, burial and stoning. The base is wrapped in a python skin eluding to the snake in the Garden of Eden. The division between good and evil is palpable and yet obscure: Are the stones supporting the mouth or are they burying it? Is the mouth bad because it is eating this fruit or is the ill tree and the fruit the ultimate betrayal?
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