![]() All heads were cut out from other artists paintings and incorporated into this painting so the subject could be me, the artist of this painting cutting the other artists paintings up, worried about his own head. She and the flowers grow up from other worldly landscape of heads(the back and foreground ended up looking kinda James Ensor in color and character). So a hybrid symbol of transformation is my intention. The white flowers symbolize new beginnings in the west and death in east Asia. I think there are many circular karma-tic narratives, almost lessons in there. Or- Perhaps it’s about death and losing loved ones around you, and the secret fear that you’ll be next. Maybe one narrative about a queen (with golden crown and green corona / halo) subject who takes heads in order to protect herself, but only because she feels if she doesn’t, then she will loose her own head. In mine here, the circle refers to many parabolic narratives. Other than all that the narrative is completely different than Waterhouse’s. A circle is a simple metaphor for a protected body like a cell membrane or brick house, some kind of enclosure. Thats why a pentagram has a circle, the star is the body and the circle is the protection. Also it’s a thing in witch craft to draw a circle for protection. The name helps make the painting about art history and previous paintings(one theme) and indicates if you know the Waterhouse work that this work may be about a sorceress. I never usually appropriate titles, but “Magic Circle” is a name appropriated from an old John William Waterhouse painting.
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