“The fruit was never an apple”
Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)
“In Paradise” circa 1918
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Fruit of Paradise • 1970 • Věra Chytilová
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.
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Caren van Herwaarden
Eve & Adam (2023)
watercolour & ink (140 x 50 cm)
#vulnerable #humanfiguredrawing #humanbody
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I have always liked the story of Adam and Eve because as an ex Catholic, I was raised to believe the moral of the story is to blindly obey authority figures when they tell you not to do something.
But I always thought, even as a child, that the true moral of the story seems to be that knowledge makes one as powerful as god. You can blindly accept the way things are, and perhaps your ignorance might make you happy, but to seek out knowledge, to want to know more about yourself, and your world, is to embrace freedom, even if you are cast out of your perfect dream.
I always wondered why it was so wrong for Adam and Eve to seek knowledge. To disobey god, sure, but what else could they do? Live happily forever in some forest, naked and having a good time?
Fuck that, humans landed on the fucking moon.
We were starbound.
No god could keep us here.
If a god cannot give us a good reason to obey Him, other than simply that he wills it, then he's of no use to us.
Besides, the idea of this perfect paradise where all our needs are met forever...how dull.
Embracing reality might've been a mistake, but it was our mistake, and it was one we made together.
Knowledge might kill us all one day, but better to be mortal, and learn from your past, than to live eternally perfect and forever lifeless, in some theoretical paradise where nothing would ever matter.
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