Film image #35
2018, Acrylic on board, 30x30cm
Comedy and tragedy unfold in this scene of an anxious and dirty sheep being washed by his master. There is a mixture of levity and seriousness in this cleansing ritual as the ram is relieved of the burden of his desires. There is an uneasy coexistence of entrapment and freedom. The subtitles evoke the sound of the words and the words, echoing and amplified as they would be in the confined space of the bathroom, evokes the sense of the divine.