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The Golden Apples of the Sun

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Terry Flaxton

  • Nature
  • Abstract

generative art

This work is about the singular imagination of the apple in the history of art and the West. One can think in this regard of the winged and asexual angel offering the temptation of apple to heroin. This gift is difficult to refuse because it is the offering of consciousness that has earned so many heroes to be punished for having stolen the fire or consciousness of the Gods in order to give them to men. This led Zeus to punish Prometheus and the angry Christian God to punish Lucifer..... In this very particular imaginary, when a woman is represented, she is marked by the seal of madness, the Pandora’s box being for example the most damning accusation of men towards women...

Here, the artist represents exclusively the apple, rather than men and women, to suggest that this traditionally considered poisonous gift is actually a visual hymn to the receptacle of all our hopes and dreams. In contrast to the ideas traditionally represented, the artist wanted to attest to the purity of the vehicle of light, consciousness or fire - all the symbols of the divine spark in human beings

The title is taken from The Song of Wandering Aengus, a poem by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats.

"Although I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I’ll find out where she’s gone,
And I’ll kiss her lips and take her hands ;
And I will walk among the long dappled herbs,
And pick until time and time is done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun."
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landscape

technique

generative art

duration

02:34

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