"It's So Easy To Step On Roses"
Work done from a poem stimulus, one where the poet exclaims that
"I’d rather be hated than fake it
Well…
I'd rather be strange than naked"
In the three pictures below you can see a rose start to grow, bloom and then die where its petals litter the floor. It is a expression similar to The Two Leaves story where all living things grow, develop and die and where in death they become part of the earth.
When describing the metamorphoses of a chrysalis into a butterfly Aristotle claimed that what one witnesses is the soul literally leaving the body, where the soul comes alive in the spiritual body of the butterfly leaving behind a world of imitations and copies: “On the one hand the chrysalis that does not eat, lies stiff and motionless, is, as it were dead...on the other hand, however, the butterfly that emerges after a certain period is named the psyche, the soul..The change into an adult, sexually mature, winged insect – both in a word, into the imago”(Lizek).
This is a drawing created on the same subject but using a Banksy sketch and incorporating it differently.
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