Waq Waq£575
Acrylic and collage on canvas. W 30", H 40", 76 x 102 cm
The Waq Waq tree is a legend brought back by medieval travellers, of a tree in mid-ocean which grows children/beautiful maidens. The tale of beautiful maidens has them growing from individual branches, very beautiful but cold and soulless. When the "fruit" is dropped it immediately turns skeletal, so there are clusters of skulls on the ground.
I used lips, eyes, and hands of fashion models to make the leaves of the tree, and the flowers underneath. .
The rock formations are loosely based on the way Persian miniatures painted rocks.
WAQ WAQ TREE
Have you heard of the Waq Waq tree?
Eyes hang off it like berries.
Skulls surround it like fallen fruit.
Once it was a tree of human heads
All speaking at the same time
In convoluted languages.
If someone had stuck an apple
Into each of those mouths,
It still wouldn’t have been an apple tree,
Or a silent tree.
Look at its glittery jewelled colours!
It is the tree of paradise, of earth, of hell.
Its vociferous lips agree
There is only one word for pleasure
And that is pain.
Linda Marshall
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