‘completely lonely, even your mother’s souls left you.
concept.
"Mutterseelenallein" is the 'mother' of all German words for 'loneliness.
Even though the word sounds like a typical German word - or rather three German words pasted together into one long German adjective - the term actually derived from the French idiom "moi tout seul", meaning "me all alone."
When the Huguenots, a group of persecuted French Protestants, fled to Germany in the 18th century, they used the term "moi tout seul" to describe their feeling of isolation and dislocation from home. But the Germans misunderstood the phrase as "mutterseelen" (mother's souls) and added the word "allein" (alone) so that the phrase would make sense to them. When you're "mother's souls alone," as this German adjective literally translates to, there is neither your mother nor any other soul around you. When you're "mutterseelenallein" you're not just alone, you're completely, utterly, alone.
While being all by yourself can be great - picture yourself on a lonely beach with just your book, a hammock and a delicious cocktail - "mutterseelenallein" usually has a more existential, negative connotation and can be used asa synonym for isolated, abandoned, or desperate.
inspiration.
"Euan Macleod’s work evokes a world in which the landscape is rich and abundant and human presence is minimal, save for the solitary human figure." - Kent Buchanan
EUAN MACLEOD
Born in Christchurch in 1956, Macleod's works explore states of youth and aging, the relationship between the human body and environment, and the process of memory and forgetting.
Featuring 50 works spanning 1984 to 2014 this is the first major survey of Macleod's work to be shown in New Zealand. Although he has been based in Sydney for more than 30 years, Euan Macleod has constantly returned to the country of his birth, making art and exhibiting here.Alongside Australian images, this exhibition features works inspired by the Bay of Plenty, Lyttelton Harbour, and the Southern Alps.
Euan Macleod produces dark, expressive painting. His heavily textured surfaces are literally scraped, the gritty oil paint smeared across the canvas. These are tough masculine paintings. Out of muted colours, Macleod shapes people and landscapes.
A looming figure with long limbs often divides the picture. A vertiginous cliff is sometimes delineated by a rough, raw brushstroke.Macleod's work can be seen as part of an international return to figurative expressionism. His work exhibits an interest in memory and subjective experience. The gestural marks on the canvas speak of emotion and physical labour. There is a brutal honesty to the work which at times can be quite confronting.
The figures in Macleod’s works are rendered simply and often without clothing, enveloped and overwhelmed by the natural environment around them. They can be seen walking through trees, beside lakes and rivers, in simple shelters and mineshafts, beside fires, pushing wheelbarrows and either carrying or sitting in boats. Macleod has depicted the figure as giant, using the landscape as the base for quiet contemplation.
moodboard
Combine between Euan's painting and the concept, my fashion's inspiration is from Yohji Yamamoto's FW2015, Craig Green FW2016, and Shingo Sato .
Avant-garde's style based. A lot of stitched, raw technic, and deconstruction, optical illusion with the stripe cut in pattern. Color's range is dark blue, gray, and black.
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