Well at long last here is a photo of the completed work I started in China and finished in my studio ( Atelier ) in Taita .
The painting is called " When dreams visit dreams " It is a bit like that in real life .
Measuring 1690 high by 2890 long oil paint on linen .
Because reality and dream are running side by side .
The painting also include a Cicade .
In China in the olden days people were buried with a copy cut in stone ( Jade ) put on the tongue .
This gave the spirit a voice in the after life.
The painting will be on show from the 17th of September till the 4 of October at Pataka .
Together with some other large works .
You are all welcome to come and view it .
The exhibition consist out of five other artist called Owen Mapp, Doug Marsden . Steven Myhre . Alan Wehipeihana and David McGill.
For more information about my work go to www.robertfranken.co.nz
"In China the phrase 'to shed off the golden cicada skin' is the poetic name of the tactic of using deception to escape danger, specifically of using decoys (leaving the old shell) to fool enemies. It became one of the 36 classic Chinese strategems. In the Chinese classic Journey to the West, the protagonist Priest of Tang was named the Golden Cicada; in this context the multiple shedding of shell of the cicada symbolizes the many stages of transformation required of a person before all illusions have been broken and one reaches enlightenment."
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Also the cicada was put on the tongue of the dead to give the person a voice in the afterlife . Cheers Robert
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