Description
‘Lotus Mantideus’ by Petra Frankova
Artist: Petra Frankova
Title: ‘Lotus Mantideus’
Medium: Graphite pencil on toned 250gsm Stonehenge paper
Dimensions: 14″ x 11″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2022
Artwork Will Ship From: Czech Republic
About the Artwork:
“The holy man treaded lightly on the dirty surface of the lake, and one after another, water lilies grew from his footprints, eternally sacrilegious in the mud. The brutal victors of the nutrient war were rising from the puddle that used to be in the centre of the temple of all holy words and was then a pool of purity. They smothered their rivals, the water roots sucked the small unassuming fish out of air, and the flowers turned hungrily after the bulrush. They came out behind their creator, spilling dirt, flooding the shore. The holy man turned and smiled at the flowers he had given life to. So pure, so innocent…”
This artwork is accompanied by a short story. The full text can be found here: https://frankfolium.com/lotus
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
“Symbolically unethical!”
– Johannes Georg Riessler
Petra is a traditional printmaker and illustrator from Czech republic. Her story is one hidden in eternity, ready to tear open the cocoon of waiting and spread its still wet wings. For everything within this universe is positioned in almost tyrannical, symbolist harmony. The meticulous attention to detail combined with the unnamed feeling behind words, senses and meaning. Quiet, unmoving, perpetual gazing upon something charmingly familiar, yet strangely and deeply foreign. This is her poetry of monochrome – alien, ambiguous, disconnected from our expectations and challenging ordinary perception. Creatures humming silently, in their shattered words of dread and eeriness.