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| Alba as Libyan Head - Lindsay Simons |
Lindsay paints a copy of the Erythean Sibyl’s head (Erythraean Sibyl Head - LS) as if in a cave;
process, learning, acquiring and ‘owning’ imagery; darkness and light
and a second head of the same sibyl overlaid by that of a family member, with a symbolic butterfly
process, time, life and death, transience, contemplation.
Liz takes Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI;
rewriting as a form of ownership of a text, of close reading; as a vicarious form of undertaking a journey, of taking a narrative thread and running with it; as a form of automatic writing; remaking the text as ovals/caves/orifices
....Aeneas meets the Sibyl who tells him what he has to do to travel to the underworld (the golden bough in the forest
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| Aeneid Lines 1-295 - Liz Collini |
....he travels to the dark and terrifying centre of the underworld
(Aeneid Lines 296-629)
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| Aeneid Lines 296-629 - Liz Collini |
...he emerges into the Elysian Fields to meet his father (17) (18)
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| Aeneid Lines 630-901, detail - Liz Collini |
(thread, spin, twist, ravel, wind, knot, string)
Lindsay reworks the figure of the Delphic sibyl, this time obscured by broken pattern, a design from a William Morris pattern book;
the semi-obliteration of the (captured) figure; what is concealed and what is revealed; what is heard and what is silenced; (high) art vs (low) craft; the domestic as a counterpoint to the classical; two forms of the classical
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| Delphic Oracle obscured by William Morris - Lindsay Simons |
We both think about Ovid’s Metamorphoses; the fate of the Sibyl when she wishes for eternal life and shrivels to nothingness, held in a bottle hanging from the roof of her cave; only her voice remains;
“I will go as far as having to suffer transformation, and I will be viewed as non-existent, but still known as a voice: the fates will bequeath me a voice”
Lindsay reworks the Delphic sibyl with a robe of golden wallpaper design and with an ambiguously placed copy of Vogue (trapping or supporting?);
modern icons and the tyranny of fashion; ideas of beauty; how information and knowledge are disseminated (perhaps golden wallpaper as a prophecy foretelling a coming downfall?)
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| Delphic Oracle with Vogue and Roses - Lindsay Simons |
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