Description
Oil on stretched canvas
60 x 60 cm
A Song of a Rose, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2021, presents an elemental embodiment of love and pain—imagined as both a living organism and a transformative force. Here, love transcends abstraction: it blooms, decays, and renews itself like an organic entity. The iconic rose at the heart of the painting becomes a visceral organ of feeling – tender, pulsing, yet inevitably subject to decline. Love, the work suggests, is embodied and cyclical: as fragile as it is vital.
Crowned with a striking headpiece of bones, the central figure wears death as a creative mantle – an act of reanimating the past and acknowledging the deep structures that give rise to form. Death is not an
absence in this work, but an alchemical force through which transformation is made possible. The bone crown speaks to cycles of loss and regeneration: how the vessel of the self is continually reshaped
through experience.
Behind the figure, patterned and subtly reflective shapes evoke a liminal dream-space – a surface that operates like a mirror or Rorschach test. The background invites the viewer’s unconscious into the work, opening space for personal projection and interpretation. It becomes a site where hidden emotions and meanings may surface.
Through its layered symbols and evocative imagery, A Song of a Rose offers a meditation on the beauty and transience of life, the decay of intimacy, and the mysterious forces that animate, dissolve, and ultimately renew the forms we inhabit. It speaks to the enduring cycles of human emotion – how love, even in its painful transformations, is woven into the greater rhythm of life and spirit.
