please be all I want you to be: and there are hands carrying out the the genteel rituals of love
4 panels each 24 x 30x 0.6 cm
In the four panels of “and there are hands carrying out the genteel rituals of love”, courtly gestures are transformed into a sort of ‘rock, paper, scissor’ game with undertones of submission and dominion. The work creates a world of decoration and elegance, while a shadowy Victorian gothic palette suggests that all is not what it seems.
“Please be all I want you to be” is a series of works which investigates the longing for the illusions and delusions of fictional romance. It indulges in the decorative pleasures of the 19th century while playing with the darker undertones of a world in which the men are dark and rigid and the ladies soft and fair. Wistful and nostalgic, and possibly romantic, it is tempered by a good dose of irony and humor.
In the four panels of “and there are hands carrying out the genteel rituals of love”, courtly gestures are transformed into a sort of ‘rock, paper, scissor’ game with undertones of submission and dominion. The work creates a world of decoration and elegance, while a shadowy Victorian gothic palette suggests that all is not what it seems.
“Please be all I want you to be” is a series of works which investigates the longing for the illusions and delusions of fictional romance. It indulges in the decorative pleasures of the 19th century while playing with the darker undertones of a world in which the men are dark and rigid and the ladies soft and fair. Wistful and nostalgic, and possibly romantic, it is tempered by a good dose of irony and humor.
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