Recently finished this wooden triptych, composed of three cedar plates, two doors and a central piece. The doors can be printed together to form another print (below). The doors I had finished a while back, and now with the centre it is complete. I feel like my style has evolved, so that the middle plate feels a little different but still relates to the iconography on the door panels. The religious reference on the sides is much heavier and direct, with quotes alluding to the bible, and the stories of the birth of Eve and the sacrifice of Isaac. Whilst the centre is perhaps more ambiguous. The kneeling figures are facing and connected to the 'carnal aperture'- is this an apparition, an abstract symbol or rooted in concrete reality? They have a bodily connection with it, of what nature?
Drawing from yet departing from Christian iconography, these figures could represent Adam and Eve. The duality often leads to this assumption, but their sexual characteristics are ambiguous, and is there something flowing out or into their bodies? Their opening lies where their belly buttons would be, is it some form of genitalia?
