Genur.art

Blooming porcelain. A photorealistic museum photograph shot dead-centre and symmetrical in a dark gallery, lit by two narrow spotlights from directly above. Inside a tall glass vitrine a completely nude adult woman is displayed standing on a low black stone plinth, feet slightly apart, arms at her sides, shoulders level, chin up, hair pinned back, eyes open and calm. Her skin has become glossy blue-and-white botanical porcelain: smooth glazed surfaces with painted vine motifs cover her shoulders, both breasts, her belly and her left hip, fine gold-edged cracks open along her collarbone, sternum and hip, and living white and pale blue flowers with green stems grow directly out of those openings, one cluster between her breasts, a second at her left hip, a third curling around her right wrist, while her face, throat and right thigh remain bare human skin. A small white museum label placard sits on a black stand at the lower left corner of the vitrine, and the glass reflects two faint vertical highlights. The gallery around the case is black and empty. Her body, the glazed surfaces and the flowers stay sharply in focus, the plinth edge is crisp, and the surrounding darkness falls away completely, with even margins on both sides of the case.