Chol Bird
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- Price Range: 05. $5000-$10000, 06. $10000 and Up
- Medium: Wood, Chalk
SOLD
Original, One of a Kind
About This Piece
Aculina’s bird imagery represents a major cycle in her work. It is a motif that, for her, was not simple cause celebre. The artist finds the flying dove too facile a symbol, too light to represent the brutal vicissitudes of finding personal freedom in an oppressive state. In Aculina’s work we examine more than the bird flying free. We see birds confined, smothered, escaping, fighting. Aculina’s Chol Bird is layered in darkness, the form is barely discernible, it is entangled in dark lines. Its head is thrown back at a hard angle and another bird emerges from the left corner to peck at it. In the center of the composition is a long diagonal shaft, a burst of white, and a soft organic form in red. The bird’s heart is pierced by an arrow. If the bird represents freedom and peace, as Picasso’s facile doves do, Aculina’s vision is one of freedom embattled, peace nearly slain. Yet the bird struggles on, it does not die. At last the artist gives us a magical reprieve. Freedom will be ensnared and attacked, but it cannot be killed, for it lives in our hearts and stirs to awaken.
