Tapestry I hear you with my heart ,2003
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Notes : Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists, and is notable for her ability to shift between different mediums with equal facility and accomplishment. She is respected as a sculptor, painter and printmaker, but her work in all mediums tends to express and work with a similar set of thematics and concerns. Prominent among these is the dichotomy between mortality and immortality, between the living and the spirit worlds. This work includes one of her most characteristic depictions, of the goddess Diana, with her bow, leading a hunt through an arboreal scene. Diana is the goddess of the hunt, of fertility, and of the passage to the underworld, a spiritual journey Bell returns to again and again in her work. The allusion to a tapestry of the heart, perhaps recording this hunt and the heartfelt journey to another world on the other side of the forest, is emblematic of Bell’s core beliefs.
James Sey
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