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ORLANDO is an original acrylic painting by artist Carlo Pavan inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel, the gold detail invoking kintsugi—the enchanting Japanese tradition. Every piece is hand-painted directly onto luxurious 100% cotton rag Khadi paper, then mounted on A4 board ready to be framed.
This series of original artworks was inspired by Virginia Woolf's masterpiece novel “Orlando”, which explores the evolution of gender identity through its protagonist, a young, male nobleman in the Elizabethan era that, midway through the narrative, transforms into a woman. Carlo Pavan uses the natural element of the volcano as a metaphor of our many unstable and fluid selves, constantly mutating and slipping into each other, still maintaining elements of continuity. In these artworks, lava and its eruption suggest the urge of our true selves to come to the surface. The use of gold is a reference to the Japanese art of kintsugi, and to the beauty and healing power of letting our true selves out through the cracks of social constructs. In Woolf’s book, Orlando—who retains the memories and internal self of both sexes—learns to embrace a unified identity that transcends the binary.
Each piece is unique and may vary slightly from the image, it comes mounted and will fit an A4 frame.
