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For the Teleidoscope 2014 project: teleidoscopespain.blogspot.com…

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:star::star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

One runs a risque when quoting imagery from the history of art. At the very least, there is the reaction from the part of the viewer that the artist is gaining some easy or false authority from association with a grand work of art. And yet it is ridiculous for any artist, passionate about the traditions of art, to avoid its magnificent course. This piece pays homage to a work from a great artist, and by extension the oeuvre of this great painter, and ultimately the grandeur of our shared history of art and creativity.
A model is seated in a chair before what appears to be a mural reproduced from Rousseau's "Equatorial Jungle". This easily triggers an complex matrix of signs and signified which rebounds between the rarity of art history and quotidien personal experience. Her stare, fixed away, suggests that she both shares in Rousseau's dream and lives in Rousseau's creative accomplishment. Does a parrot perched on the chair suggest that the dream has come to life? It completes a line for the eye which starts with the arc of yellow blossoms on the painting, pulls the gaze across the gathered up legs, invitingly dressed in a tropical pattern, and ends at the suggestion of a frond corona for a jungle queen. The "moment", portrayed, is as plausible and reflexive, as any portrait study. But this self-portrait of the artist carries the force of a simple artifice. It could be just a pensive moment, but the invitation to travel between levels of significance is as seductive as a Rousseau reverie. She positions herself between the thrall of art history and the individual challenge to create. And extends a warm, rich invitation to join her.