VICISSITUDES: NEW DRAWINGS BY GENIE PORETZKY-LEE
SKY BURIAL, A series of collages on paper, 2024
Presently BIRDS seem to RETURN in an impeccable way as part of a new personal creative impulse. In 2018 they were the subject of 30 mono prints: ‘The Language of the Birds” (Museum of Goa, 2019). Now they are back to inspire new drawings, recalling an ancient burial practice in a unique winged way when recycling human physicality after death. In Tibet and Nepal, vultures facilitate a universal and inevitable transition from Earth to the Sun.
Presently BIRDS seem to RETURN in an impeccable way as part of a new personal creative impulse. In 2018 they were the subject of 30 mono prints: ‘The Language of the Birds” (Museum of Goa, 2019). Now they are back to inspire new drawings, recalling an ancient burial practice in a unique winged way when recycling human physicality after death. In Tibet and Nepal, vultures facilitate a universal and inevitable transition from Earth to the Sun.
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"Winged recycling of human vicissitudes."
G.P.L. September, 2024 Drawings inspired by the ancient, sacred practice of sky burials. |
The Vulture form alighted soft therein, and ate the flesh from the corpses, to the bone. The wind howled, desolate, in this fearsome place, fluttering the cerements about the ivory bones. Silently, the Winged One stared, gore smeared about her beak. Into the eyes of each Priest there assembled, her baleful gaze did search. In perfect peace they beheld her searching, for each, as Warrior, had made of Death a brother. Deliberately then, she unfolded out her wings, and took to the wind, and soared up from that place.
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