Mateja
Artist Penelope O’Gara
Vintage silk, lace, velvet & jewellery; wool & wire
53cm H x 43cm W
Mateja may have a curious aversion to daylight & a love of her weirdly earthen-scented bed, but she also enjoys playing the Baroque lute (not, please note, the Renaissance or Mediterranean varieties), has an inordinate fondness for hopscotch, & loves to garden. Many is the trench she digs towards the back of the flower beds; planting lupins she claims, although none ever seem to bloom. Perhaps that is on account of her poor choice of placement - lupins are known to thrive in open, sunny spaces, while Mateja chooses particularly well-shaded, dank spots for her moon-lit planting. Or perhaps it is due to the fact that it is not seeds but bodies that she inters. Naughty girl!
Artist Penelope O’Gara
Vintage silk, lace, velvet & jewellery; wool & wire
53cm H x 43cm W
Mateja may have a curious aversion to daylight & a love of her weirdly earthen-scented bed, but she also enjoys playing the Baroque lute (not, please note, the Renaissance or Mediterranean varieties), has an inordinate fondness for hopscotch, & loves to garden. Many is the trench she digs towards the back of the flower beds; planting lupins she claims, although none ever seem to bloom. Perhaps that is on account of her poor choice of placement - lupins are known to thrive in open, sunny spaces, while Mateja chooses particularly well-shaded, dank spots for her moon-lit planting. Or perhaps it is due to the fact that it is not seeds but bodies that she inters. Naughty girl!
Artist Penelope O’Gara
Vintage silk, lace, velvet & jewellery; wool & wire
53cm H x 43cm W
Mateja may have a curious aversion to daylight & a love of her weirdly earthen-scented bed, but she also enjoys playing the Baroque lute (not, please note, the Renaissance or Mediterranean varieties), has an inordinate fondness for hopscotch, & loves to garden. Many is the trench she digs towards the back of the flower beds; planting lupins she claims, although none ever seem to bloom. Perhaps that is on account of her poor choice of placement - lupins are known to thrive in open, sunny spaces, while Mateja chooses particularly well-shaded, dank spots for her moon-lit planting. Or perhaps it is due to the fact that it is not seeds but bodies that she inters. Naughty girl!
