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

Female Flowers I

These flowers seem to break out of a 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 as awoman, time passing by, but being very alive and very true to oneself. A metaphoric piece about becoming wiser and stronger, feeling more whole as before. Many women can relate; the feeling that you have to protect yourself, or that you are being limited, caught by gender confirming presumptions in society. It is a piece about 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 break out more empowered and true.