Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
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Dominion of Light. Rene Magritte. 1950
Truer words were never spoken. From The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.
Image credit: Barbara Concu
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Jusepe de Ribera, St. Sebastian Tended by Holy Women, 1621
“Head of Medusa” (detail), c.1617-18, Peter Paul Rubens. (via)
Sandro Botticelli: Madonna and Child with Siinging Angels (détail), around 1477.
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Detail from Raphael’s “The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna”, 1508.