Balinese Gateway Painting

This summarises my thoughts on this painting: The gateway illustrates the rise of the magnificent balinese culture, art and architecture to subjugate the surrounding jungle which has spawned and fed its creation and magnificence. This civilisation in turn becomes overtaken and swallowed by the encroaching forest after passing its peak, as its former glory is absorbed back into the jungle’s verdant splendour, the inherent diversity of nature which the culture failed to love and respect enough. It’s a metaphor for our civilisations’ fated interelationship with mother earth and our inevitable rise and ultimate decline. The way the living world has organically fueled our subliminal magical rise and bloom on the back of its vegetative condensed power which has blossomed and spoiled, rotted and suffocated us, leading to an unstoppable but ultimately natural decline. The luscious forest that spawned and fed the sublime giant has ultimately choked, starved and taken it back into its verdant heart; this image documents that transition in its intricate splendour; illustrating the connections between nature and the inexorable rise and fall of man within it.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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