• We thank you for the gift to decide the fate of man from birth | Ann Shelton

Ann Shelton

We thank you for the gift to decide the fate of man from birth | Ann Shelton

$10,500.00

Ann Shelton

We thank you for the gift to decide the fate of man from birth (Apple), (2022 - Ongoing)

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo

Artwork: 44 1/8 x 33 1/8 in (112 x 84 cm) 
Framed: 45 5/8 x 34 5/8 x 2 1/4 in (116 x 88 x 5 cm)



DESCRIPTION/COMMENTARY

In this work, the apple is cut to expose the pentagram at its core, as it is for making a love spell. The ironic title refers to the apple and its symbolic reconfiguration by Christianity as a symbol of “original sin” and evil. Wolf Storl expands on this transformation in The Untold History of Healing...
“The Celts, who called the world of the blessed Avalon (‘The Apple Country’), also knew the apples of eternal life. Apples and hazelnuts were cherished as food for the dead, and the spirit of the winter solstice, Santa Claus, brought apples and nuts as gifts of life.” […] “For the missionaries of the new faith, it must have been very difficult to turn the apple into a symbol of sin and death. Eve gave poor Adam this fruit to eat and so plunged them into misery. ‘Malum e malo’ (the evil came through an apple), said the evangelizers. For the medieval monks, the apple was the power of sensual love and seduction, as well as female breasts.”
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