Ophelia (the dream) Print

“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity...Who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable. "Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness, within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.” ― Emily Thorne The work is a portrait of a modern Ophelia. Shakespeare inspired depictions of Ophelia in paintings usually show Ophelia as she already dead while she lays in the water. In this work, Ophelia appears caught in an abstract landscape. This could be at the same time an abstract representation of her death in the pond and a view of her in the moments before her death. The interpretation is open to the viewer. The presence of flowers, plants, and a bird underlines the close relationship between the character and nature (and between the artist and nature).

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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