By Anastassia Skopp 1
Located in Zofingen, AG
There are nights when the air doesn’t move. Heat sits low over everything, and whatever the gardens are releasing — rose, something greener, something almost like tea — stops separating into individual scents. It becomes one thick, wordless presence in the dark.
Smoked Rose was painted during a heatwave, in a week when the temperature never really dropped, even after midnight. Roses in deep pink and violet emerge from near-black ground, their scent implied rather than shown — something recognized with eyes closed, the way you do when the night is too still to rely on sight. Branches cross without hurry, unlit, the way a garden looks when you smell it before you see it.
Anastassia Skopp...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic