🟠  NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 21 / ON GENDER BALANCE

IN THE PINK.

BARBIE IS HAVING A BALL

PINK NAPOLEON (a.k.a. Pink Narcissus) [2024]

Artist: Neville Williams

Media: Fired clay, mixed media 

on wooden and metal base

Size: 67cm (H) x  24cm square base

$400

This is one of those sculptures that I keep reworking and am almost happy with the way he/she him/her they/them is presenting. Though the figure does need more pink*.

The message here is about masculine and feminine energies and parity between the two.

Both are doing it hard at the moment.

Both exist in each of us whether male, transgender or female. 

Boy O’ boy (or Sheee’z) are things out of balance presently. 

What a tug of war is going on inside and outside of people.

To explain the sculpture here...

The masculine has been out whacking for years dominating the landscape…(hence the purposely intrusive out of proportion phallus)…and to what benefit ultimately? What was gold and shiny is now tarnished. The feminine is presently fighting back to secure a place. Not before time. If we keep going down the masculine road of metaphorically speaking who’s got the biggest one humanity will end up f__cked.

I titled this sculpture with the French Emperor’s name and abstract likeness because he is a relevant example of the destruction that can be caused when you LET someone take charge that just will not bend and keeps going back for more of an addictive testosterone hit. An historical habit that can be attributed to the masculine.

Paradoxically this Napoleon looks feminine or at the least ‘effete’ (and so, the ever so ‘Barbie’ pink colouring). If you turn him around and look at the back side of him though the machinery of war makes up the content of his innards or character.

We need both male and female energies in our world. Each has their place and role to make good. 

But in balance please.

"Narcissistic posturing is just so yesterday Barbie!" - KEN.  Blah! - Neville

* I shall add more pink as the feminine asserts itself.

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