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Floating
2010
570 x 765 mms
pen-and-ink on watercolour paper
The arum, or lords and ladies, is set off-centre, and without any supporting background seems to be suspended in empty air. The idea of the picture came to Nicholson in a moment of vision, in which she and the plant – two strange life-forms – were together, drifting in unbounded space but united in being part of existence.
