The Emerald City
Acrylics on Stretched Canvas
76.2 x 101.6 x 4.44cm
Copyright Caroline Boff and William Shakespeare. Photography Andrew Bovill, Photo by Magnus Lunay
Further images
Painted with the Wizard of Oz in mind this is a hint to the fact that things are not as they seem. That dreaming of something might just be that - fiction. And when you finally find it, it slips away as quickly as it finally appeared. Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz realises that she had the power to get home and to safety all by herself. She didn't need the wizard, she just had to realise how to do it for herself. A note of self discovery, self love, is the grass is always greener? And certainly all that glitters is not gold. Sonnet 37 by William Shakespeare speaks of age vs youth and how the weary aged sometimes attach their love to the bountiful youth energy. In this painting that is Dorothy versus the wizard and the wizard versus Dorothy. When Dorothy pulls back the curtain she is shocked at the frailty and normality of the so called wizard.
Painted with the Wizard of Oz in mind this is a hint to the fact that things are not as they seem. That dreaming of something might just be that - fiction. And when you finally find it, it slips away as quickly as it finally appeared. Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz realises that she had the power to get home and to safety all by herself. She didn't need the wizard, she just had to realise how to do it for herself. A note of self discovery, self love, is the grass is always greener? And certainly all that glitters is not gold. Sonnet 37 by William Shakespeare speaks of age vs youth and how the weary aged sometimes attach their love to the bountiful youth energy. In this painting that is Dorothy versus the wizard and the wizard versus Dorothy. When Dorothy pulls back the curtain she is shocked at the frailty and normality of the so called wizard.