Night Garden: In Moonlight the Stars Chatter
This body of art is a unique and special edition of 50 elements that comprise the series “Night Garden: In Moonlight the Stars Chatter” for season three of Commissioner.
The title is an extended soliloquy for the passing of time, using the garden as a site of leisure, congregation, and deep reflection. The articulate series offers moments of sorrow, birth, and redemption amongst our daily lives. Works in the series are embellished with flora and fauna reminiscent of the French Rococo era to create subtle surprise and the illusion of motion and drama in each piece.
The color blue provides the Collector with consideration of thought - a reminder that life is beautiful and magical in all its splendor of good, the bad, and the unknown. The color blue had the power to protect enslaved Africans and their descendants, known as the Gullah Geechee, from evil spirits. Similar to how Blue glass bottles were hung in trees to trap evil marauders.
Photograph by David Gary Lloyd