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MORIA, A EULOGY OF FOLLY a body of work presented for MFA, UCT |
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  Artist: JUDY WOODBORNE Title: Mere Folly Size: 42 X 53.5 cm Medium: Etching Price: R 15 000 Framed |
The title Mere folly is a pun on the French and English use of the word mere, meaning either “mother” or “absolute” or “sheer”. Often in carnival, lavish theatrical floats paraded the streets, containing actors, players and entire orchestras. Mere folly, or Befana (as she was sometimes known) had jurisdiction over the affairs of her company of Fools, sitting surrounded by actors and orchestra. The bird images are hybrid forms taken from images of bagpipes. Various paraphernalia of the Fool are portrayed, the slapstick, the pebble – dies, nox et omnia, (day, night and the rest of the world) feathers and the text narren (fools) written on a flowing banner. Here, the layering of three drums suggests the Wheel of Fortune. At the top, an ioculatore holds a stick for a jumping fish, reminiscent of the circus dog performing tricks. Other absurd images such as the empty boats - with giraculum as masthead, and the muzzled Fool, relegated to his tiny vessel, circumnavigating without reaching shore, create the carnivalesque. | |||||
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 Artist: JUDY WOODBORNE Title: The Carnival of the Animals Size: 30 X 35 cm Medium: etching and aquatint Price: R 6,500 Unframed |
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