in collaboration with Virginia Bradley
Florence Biennale 2000
"Land of Milk and Honey" appropriates a sixteenth century engraving by the Netherlandish Mannerist engraver Marten de Vos, which was itself a transcription of an earlier painting.
The image is an Allegory of Death and Resurrection and the piece continues the themes of mortality, extending notions of transcendence and transformation suggested by process and materials.
Magnified printed marks are hand painted in oils, on a heavyweight surface constructed from birchwood panels and inlaid metal. The density of ornate, rich imagery connects with the opulence and sensuality, implicit in the fertility the symbolic landscape and the aesthetic of sensory and imaginative excess.