Splendours of Versailles #2 Print

Splendours of Versailles is a series of digital collage works composed from reproductions of Venetian paintings by the same name found in a Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue. I am interested in still life painting and drawing because of their representations mortality through symbolic ornamentation and mimesis, yet they still show a melancholic vitality of the human spirit. By re-stitching these representations of impermanence, and further disturbing these images of feminine and religious subject matter painted by men, through the digital I’ve coursed to find out what death and the eternal mean or look like to me in the 21st century. The digital print is on 36" x 36" Fujiflex Print