Female Flowers
Dimensions: H107 x W75 x D15 cm
Year: 2024

Female Flowers I

Thorny stems, greyish roses under a dark net. The flowers seem to break out of this dark net. Are they flowers? Their spiky, pointy parts are very clear, out of a white hazy part below. The background is a green, very old silk fragment of textile. There is a melancholic feeling in the work. It is about getting older, time passing by, but being very alive and very true to oneself. A metaphoric piece about ageing as a woman, to become wiser and strong, feeling more whole as before. Demanding not to be touched, pushed, or forced by anyone, anymore. To no longer wanting to meet wishes or expectations of others, less pleasing and sweet, to be more empowered and true.