Limited edition (20) A3 (16.5 × 11.7in) giclee print (for sale in UK only)
Harmony was created using the power of the sun over several days. The apples remained on the tree throughout the making, the shapes created by shading areas from the sun with cut-outs made from insulation tape. There were many attempts to make this piece - apples rot, fall from the tree to the ground during this season…this is the power of now, working alongside mother nature in her seasonal cycle.
This piece is a reflection on many imaginings of that moment in the garden of eden where, apparently, two humans realised they were ‘not the same’.
For me, this fits the story of the Yin-Yang symbol in Daoism: the harmony of the opposites creating the whole.
There’s controversy over the snake’s part in this moment…and yes, I tried to create a snake in this project, but the apples went bad and fell from the tree. Only my yin-yang experiments yielded the image I was looking for. I rather like that.
There are so many interpretations of this moment (which appears in many texts from antiquity all over the world). My own mind was opened by Joseph Cambell’s ideas around this moment, where he stated during his much-loved interview with Bill Moyers:
Bill Moyers:
In the Christian story the serpent is the seducer.
Joseph Campbell:
That amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the world. And the woman was the one who handed the apple to man. This identification of the woman with sin, of the serpent with sin, and thus of life with sin, is the twist that has been given to the whole story in the biblical myth and doctrine of the Fall.
Limited edition (20) A3 (16.5 × 11.7in) giclee print (for sale in UK only)
Harmony was created using the power of the sun over several days. The apples remained on the tree throughout the making, the shapes created by shading areas from the sun with cut-outs made from insulation tape. There were many attempts to make this piece - apples rot, fall from the tree to the ground during this season…this is the power of now, working alongside mother nature in her seasonal cycle.
This piece is a reflection on many imaginings of that moment in the garden of eden where, apparently, two humans realised they were ‘not the same’.
For me, this fits the story of the Yin-Yang symbol in Daoism: the harmony of the opposites creating the whole.
There’s controversy over the snake’s part in this moment…and yes, I tried to create a snake in this project, but the apples went bad and fell from the tree. Only my yin-yang experiments yielded the image I was looking for. I rather like that.
There are so many interpretations of this moment (which appears in many texts from antiquity all over the world). My own mind was opened by Joseph Cambell’s ideas around this moment, where he stated during his much-loved interview with Bill Moyers:
Bill Moyers:
In the Christian story the serpent is the seducer.
Joseph Campbell:
That amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the world. And the woman was the one who handed the apple to man. This identification of the woman with sin, of the serpent with sin, and thus of life with sin, is the twist that has been given to the whole story in the biblical myth and doctrine of the Fall.
