Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV
Georgia O’keeffe
O’KEEFFE
“I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown.” Said O’Keeffe, “So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.” When she began her Jack-in-the-Pulpit series, which sees the flowers move across four canvases from reality to abstraction, Georgia O’Keeffe was all but u known. A female modernist painter in a male dominated world, attempting to carve a name for herself. By the time the series was completed, she had gained reputation and with it, speculation. Every viewer tried to create their own narrative of the artist from her paintings of flowers, casting her as an artist of repression, of longing, of lust, of feminism, of tradition. But O’Keeffe has long defied any easy narrative, she is an artist of America and as broad and complicated as the country she captured, through its abstraction and its reality.
Friday 30th October
Venus begins its return as the morning star, emerging from the Sun’s glare to herald the dawn. The ancient Romans called Venus in this appearance Lucifer, meaning “light-bringer”—a name that described its arrival before sunrise, long before its later association with the fallen angel. This image offers a beautiful symbol of renewal: the promise of daylight while the world is still wrapped in darkness. As the Moon moves into Gemini, the theme of light finds another expression. In biodynamics, Gemini belongs to the air and light element, associated with the flowering aspect of the plant. This is considered a favourable time to work with flowering plants, tending the borders and, where conditions allow, planting flowers for the seasons ahead. Take a moment to notice the blossoms that remain: their colour and delicacy bring brightness to the autumn garden, while offering food to insects still active in the cooler days.
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