The painting EVE explores the visual similarities common to Paper snowflake construction and mitosis. The paper is folded into a triangle and the design is cut. The snowflake appears as the paper is unfolded in a mirror-like progression similar to cell division. The painting Eve explores this confluence of form and content by dividing the basic the snowflake pattern and reassembling it in to a (family) tree. On close examination the two nearly identical stacked sections do not touch however, indicating a fissure in genealogy between the cloned individual and their parent. The snowflake is made out of Playboy bunnies, to emphasize both ideas of the physically near-perfect human specimen, as well as the objectification and dehumanization of looking at humans as merely objects or collections of DNA. The title Eve is to refer to first generation humans, cloned and Biblical.

Formal notes: The bunny shapes were used to create a dynamic figure ground relationship. The mirrored blue shapes can also be read as positive shape floating on a grid of purple and pink cylinders. It is easier to perceive the blue as figure when viewing this artwork in person, due to the think impasto application of paint. Blue is used to imply sky and infinite space in order to mitigate the surfacing effects of impasto. The grid pattern is perceptually dubbed into the bunny shape contours. The relationship between the bunny contours and the underlying grid is unplanned and arbitrary yet the bunnies appear to posses the grid shape which renders them as bending form in space.

Eve

oil on panel

11"x13"