Museum Edition XL, PRIDE (Adam & Eve with Baby) Edition of 7 Photograph

‘Pride’ from award-winning fine art series Birth Undisturbed by Natalie Lennard, in Museum Edition XL on Premium Lustre Rag Paper at 120 x 160cm, limited to 7 +2AP. Artwork comes printed with 2cm border in addition to size stated, accompanied with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Every image in Birth Undisturbed is Giclee printed with OEM 70+ year archival inks. The series is shot on world-class 100 megapixel Phase One IQ3 medium format to provide rich impeccable quality with exceptional detail on both screen and print. ____ "The paradise fruit was really sexual consciousness. 'Original sin' was orgasmic experience. The snake was cosmic female energy, degraded into a symbol of vice. We have long been under a spell that life is inherently evil. Western culture has now run itself into the ground, and there is no other way but to return to the Mother who gives us life." — Monica Sjoo Universal in culture is the image of Eve in the Garden of Eden, succumbing to the serpent's temptation of the apple and offering it to Adam, with the consequence that their human knowledge destroys God's trust. Forever thwarting the future of woman by the curse God bestows that she will suffer greatly in childbirth, the attitude of Christianity - and indeed of humankind - toward procreation and the process of birth is not untroubled. What does it mean to picture Adam and Eve in a modern way? What does it mean to picture a man and woman fully stripped down to their naked, unashamed selves, bearing a bloody newborn baby? Adam bears his serpent. Eve bears the fruit. Is the forbidden knowledge that of our own bodies, our powers? Can we again be proud?