Cecilie E. Åserud
Photographic print on cotton paper
Edition 1/5 + 1 A.P.
Signed
Size h 37 × w 37 cm
Other sizes in this edition h 57 × w 57 and h 90 × w 90 cm
Norwegian title: Granateple
Series: Afterthoughts
Year: 2022
The art photo Pomegranate now hangs in the home of author and priest Elisabeth Thorsen, who recognized the many symbols associated with this fruit and shares with us:
“I like that the pomegranate balances the two halves of the fruit in a way that reminds me of yin and yang. In addition, the pomegranate is associated with so many different mythical stories about wisdom and fertility, death and rebirth, life and femininity. I can never finish them! The pomegranate stories are found in Greek mythology and Jewish wisdom. They are found in Buddhism and in Assyrian beliefs: The stories are simply fundamental to our culture. Yet we do not know them. But if we could think of them when we crack the little seeds against our teeth, the juicy, red and translucent pulp would taste even better. Both for the soul and the body. In the meantime, I dream away in Cecilie's image.”
What happens to the old and wrinkly ones? The items we leave in the cupboard for too long? Are they entirely without purpose? Not worth a second glance? Cecilie discovered that the family's storage room is the perfect place to create weird fates out of organic material, such as vegetables, fruits and plants. Rather than discarding these dried-out shapes, she rediscovers them in total darkness. Cecilie is painting them with light from her torch and making them into 21st century still lifes.
In the first works in the series Afterthoughts, there is often one vegetable that looks at us. In the last year, the one has more often been divided into two, so that from a state of solitude a partnership is formed. Two that belong together.
Cecilie E. Åserud
Photographic print on cotton paper
Edition 1/5 + 1 A.P.
Signed
Size h 37 × w 37 cm
Other sizes in this edition h 57 × w 57 and h 90 × w 90 cm
Norwegian title: Granateple
Series: Afterthoughts
Year: 2022
The art photo Pomegranate now hangs in the home of author and priest Elisabeth Thorsen, who recognized the many symbols associated with this fruit and shares with us:
“I like that the pomegranate balances the two halves of the fruit in a way that reminds me of yin and yang. In addition, the pomegranate is associated with so many different mythical stories about wisdom and fertility, death and rebirth, life and femininity. I can never finish them! The pomegranate stories are found in Greek mythology and Jewish wisdom. They are found in Buddhism and in Assyrian beliefs: The stories are simply fundamental to our culture. Yet we do not know them. But if we could think of them when we crack the little seeds against our teeth, the juicy, red and translucent pulp would taste even better. Both for the soul and the body. In the meantime, I dream away in Cecilie's image.”
What happens to the old and wrinkly ones? The items we leave in the cupboard for too long? Are they entirely without purpose? Not worth a second glance? Cecilie discovered that the family's storage room is the perfect place to create weird fates out of organic material, such as vegetables, fruits and plants. Rather than discarding these dried-out shapes, she rediscovers them in total darkness. Cecilie is painting them with light from her torch and making them into 21st century still lifes.
In the first works in the series Afterthoughts, there is often one vegetable that looks at us. In the last year, the one has more often been divided into two, so that from a state of solitude a partnership is formed. Two that belong together.
