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Constance Mallinson • Forever Bow
Constance Mallinson • Forever Bow
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Constance Mallinson
Forever Bow, 2024
Oil on canvas
10 x 10 in
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Constance Mallinson's current paintings are based on an extremely diverse range of post-consumer objects she collects from the urban environment, either in the larger form of compositions of massive accumulations or in smaller paintings of single objects. The objects in the small paintings are rooted in the still life painting tradition but gently subversive. Though also formal investigations, they are highly symbolic of contemporary culture.
In Forever Bow, a large shiny plastic bow that shines like a bright star seems to evoke the use of glittering imagery in spiritual/religious works but, like all of her subjects, has been discarded in the trash after one use. It suggests that religious devotion is as subject to abandonment (or rebirth) as any object in the throwaway culture. Being plastic however, the bow will take many years to disintegrate and remind us of what we have done to the earth.
