Transformation is at the heart of la démonstrie. The idea of metamorphosis and myth had been working its way through... Read More
Transformation is at the heart of la démonstrie. The idea of metamorphosis and myth had been working its way through me until I came across Jacques Stella’s Minerva Visiting the Muses on Mount Helicon — a fertile painting. In that composition Minerva wavers, half present, half invisible. Is she seen by the reclining figure facing her? Has she, too, lost sight of her mission? In its own way, I think this canvas questions our memory, our capacity to remember — or what is left of our world: a ruin, a collapse. But the petals also mark the possibility of fertility, a reminder that this is, after all, only a cycle: dismantle, rebuild. A gentle fable, depending on how one chooses to tell it.
