JMo1 Jennifer Monds - The air we share

Title of artwork: The air we share
Medium: acrylic, moulding paste, gold leaf on cradled wood panel
Size: 51cm x 51cm x 3cm
Year: 2024

Description: A jug 'drawn' in a gold leaf line over a dark rough surface. Again, a vessel is used to represent a person, and the dark rough background represents the metaphorical dust and clay from which we are made.
We are all connected in so many ways, including by the air we breathe. The air inside the jug is intermingling freely with the air surrounding it, just as the air deep in my lungs will soon be in the lungs of others nearby. In fact the particles will go round the world! Some of the particles in the air we breathe today will have been breathed by our ancestors and even by dinosaurs...
It also alludes to the Chinese saying 'We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want' (Lao Tzu) Perhaps alluding to what's inside something being more important than the outside, and also perhaps to potential.
This is a painting from a series originally inspired by the Japanese technique of 'kintsugi'.