KVT – Silken Seduction

So many stories can be read in these faces by anyone with an iota of creativity. Can’t understand why more groups don’t get together and see exhibitions like this one! The discussion possibilities are boundless.

The lit oil lamp, almost a trademark in his prints, is a motif again, occasionally in multiples; sometimes covering the mouth; once growing Medusa-like from the skull; usually parallel with the mouth. Western biblical allusions come to my mind but it is the oriental symbolism that I’d like to fathom.

In a couple an ornate hair pin features and this, too, is deliciously puzzling.

The exhibition is far, far too beautiful for its present venue which always looks as though the floor tiles haven’t been swept or washed for years. Perhaps the artist intended that beauty floating above dirt, dust and smudges would add another metaphorical concept to the exhibition! The grot really suited the much maligned but really engrossing Black exhibition of a week or so ago but I know that if I was hiring the space I’d certainly insist on it having a good scrub up first (or perhaps that’s why the management have the lights turned off so often during exhibitions, so that the dinginess is hidden). Given a good spit and polish it would be a very good gallery…..a friend drove past early on Sunday afternoon, saw the place in darkness and drove on unimpressed.