Dr Sangeeta Sandrasegar
Quite Contrary, 2018
Watercolour and cutout papers
36 x 41 cm
'Quite Contrary’ is based on depictions of the story Mary Magdalene after the resurrection, where she wanders into the desert for 20 or more years, shunning the world, to undertake a form of penance and a review of what life means. In this time of self enforced separation her clothes and worldly trappings disintegrate and her hair grows long, a representation that her martyrdom is modestly protected. In this period of isolation she is said to have been fed by angels.
'Quite Contrary’ is based on depictions of the story Mary Magdalene after the resurrection, where she wanders into the desert for 20 or more years, shunning the world, to undertake a form of penance and a review of what life means. In this time of self enforced separation her clothes and worldly trappings disintegrate and her hair grows long, a representation that her martyrdom is modestly protected. In this period of isolation she is said to have been fed by angels.