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Melinae Forse

BEAUTIFUL YET THREATENING

I have been interested in flowers for a long time; their structure, size, arrangement and variety. Their size and shape when arranged together or when looked at through a microscope attracts us to them as objects of natural beauty though their appearence is environmentally and economically determined and cultivated to satisfy fashion and desire. I have discovered that a flower is not just an object of great beauty but also of death. A flower, in which mortality and sexual signals are so pronounced, can be viewed as similar to the experience of the human condition. Conflicting responses to my flower-like objects represent the confusion we also experience in life, of mortality, of sex and the link between beauty and death.

VOGA Group Exhibition: 2006, 'Beyond the Vale' Newport Museum and Art Gallery. Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2007 VOGA Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, St David's Hall, Cardiff. The Gate, Cardiff.