Through the Dark City, No. 2 (2018)
Through the Dark City, No. 2 (2018) 11" x 14" x 2" acrylic on chipboard, mounted on panel. (Can be displayed in two orientations) Inspired by Charles Demuth's I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold Piece is for sale: $555 . Contact me if interested. #parody #homage It is interesting that the intersection of the inverted 5s, slightly resembles the interlocked Cs of the Chanel No. 5 logo: "She also already knew that the number five was about women in particular. From the beginning, the number five and its perfect proportions were tangled up with the secret sensuality of their allure and with the symbolism of flowers. That connection was always, at Aubazine, elemental. Indeed, the very name "'Cistercian" and that of its first monastery, Citeaux, both come from the word cistus, of the Cistaceae rockrose family, which we know today as the simple five-petalled 'wild rose' .... popular in medieval symbolism involving depictions of t...