In January
and February of 2004, I made a series of smallish oil paintings of nudes
and food. I associated food with nurturing and with women. I painted
intensely, as I do with all of my series. When I am in a zone and
engrossed the the energy of a series, I don't want to stop. I stop when my muse leaves that particular zone.
If
I were more commercially minded, I would make the same painting, with
some variations, over and over, year after year. I just can't do that. I
get excited about a new concept and technique and just have to explore
different subjects and styles.
Here is what an independent art curator in San Francisco said about this series:
"Foods and Flesh; Palette-able Pleasures"
"Throughout history artist have relied on nudes, food and landscapes for inspiration.
In
Ezshwan's body of work entitled, 'Foods and Flesh; Palette-able
Pleasures', she blurs the image of food and body and their implications.
The subject of food becomes a metaphor to the landscape of flesh
(nakedness). The nude is more than a muse. The singularity of food is
more than a prop in a still life.
For
example, an empty banana peel lies at the feet of a sprawled female
torso. It speaks of the vulnerability of the flesh vs. the ironic comedy
of life. The nude floats at the feel of "nurture mort", unguarded.
In
"Whipped Cream", the relationship between nudity is reversed; the
figure is vigorous, commanding the composition of the frame and of the
cream.
There
is lusciousness of Ezshwan's brush that helps evoke the sensuality of
the subjects and the connotation we have with the foods in question.
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