Description:
two cartoon-like figures looking at a split piece of fruit set on a flower printed pillow with a flower attached to it
Label Text:
Meditations on the Seed, a work of which other versions exist, is a particularly layered and complex work. Gillespie takes the viewer on an existential quest, writing the question right onto his work: “What is in the pit?”
The pit in question is rendered as many things at once: a vagina, a halved peach, or the core of some strange feminized fruit from which a tropical plant hatches. The two strange figures, male and female, that hover over the object seem equally alien, yet uncomfortably quaint at the same time, emphasized by the colorful patterned tablecloth. The pale male figure seems to have an almost invisible insect or bird hovering over his eyes. Peeking at the lower left of the work we find a small face, one eye staring directly at the viewer.
Tags:
men; fruit; flowers Subjects:
Men; Collage; Flowers; Crayon drawing; Paperboard; Watercolor painting; Fruit Link to share this object record:
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