At first, by its size, this pot-bellied peach immediately catches the eye. But soon, because of the oblique straight line of its shadow, the peach becomes for me a weightless entity, an incandescent red planet,with its masked facet (the Yin shadow),and half covering a brightly sun inside (the Yang): so attractive scorcher…The gobelet here (“Poor devil”!)tries to reassure, but it is (almost) an immaterial passive entity, only made up of reflections.
Now if I draw the outlines of the whole still life (gobelet + peach but without the shadows), one can perceive a geometric nose cone, with its apex being the upper tip of the oblique line, a nose cone, maybe evoking the religious symbol. I find this work is more than a naturalistic picture, more than a “postcard”: a visionary “mind” stands behind.
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