Description
Archival giclee print in a limited edition of 50 (signed and numbered), on heavyweight Canson Aquarelle fine art paper.
Size: 75 x 75 cm / ca. 29.5 x 29.5 in
Snakes I is derived from an original ink painting by Arlette Ess, digitally reworked to heighten its intensity and complexity. Dozens of vibrantly colored snakes are rendered in jewel tones of emerald, sapphire, ruby, citrine, amethyst and obsidian against a dark tonal background. Overlapping in semi-translucent layers, they appear to move organically in a spectral entanglement of texture and form.
At once mesmerizing and slightly unsettling, the work plays with ancient symbolism and ambiguity alongside contemporary ideas, creating a meditation on complexity, interdependence, and the beauty found in entanglement. This work invites the viewer to confront a multifaceted reality, to embrace layered truths, and to find flux within form. The visceral beauty of natural form is both celebrated and abstracted into an intertwined whole, embodying a visceral tension between individual and pattern.
Across cultures and centuries, the snake has been a potent mythological symbol, at once revered and reviled. It coils through our collective unconscious as healer and destroyer, protector and deceiver. From the ouroboros of ancient alchemy to the serpent in Eden, from Kundalini energy to the feared viper, the snake elicits a uniquely dual emotional response of fascination and fear in equal measure. However, in Snakes I there is no value judgement, the symbolic ambivalence that snakes have carried through history is merely infusing the image with more layers of complexity.
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