SHEEP II, Charcoal on Paper, 59.5" x 32", 2005.
One of my lecturers I had at Stellenbosch, I love her work. "The dead embryos, floating in their weightless medium of formaldehyde, represent both the miraculous beginnnings of life and the sinister fascination of death. The miniature limbs, perfect to the last fold and hair, uncannily mimic those of their adult progenitors - but the promise they hold as a blueprint of their species is false. The ambivalence of birth - as the joyful acceptance of a precious new life and the simultaneous rejecton of that same life by the maternal body - is evocatively captured in the theme of these drawings." http://www.amaridianusa.com/
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