Sunday 22 February 2015

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
size: high 65cm, Diameter 30cm
Jan 2012
Made from ready made pedal bin
embedded with photograph of me by Mark Rennison. Using red body paint and the wings I made from my ex-husband 501 Levi's, called working class Hero. Inside the bin there is plastic roses with rose oil. Influence by Marcel Dechamp ready made.
The title reference to the epic poem by John Milton from17th century, its about a fallen angel in the garden of Eden. The same title 'paradise lost' used by John Martin to title his painting that I saw in the Apocalypse exhibition at the Tate Britain.

 From my jewish heritage Paradise Lost bring the shame of Adam and Eve had to leave garden of Eden. For me its about the lost of innocent.  

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