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24 x 36 inches
© 2013
Oil on Vellum
Framed to 27 x 39 inches
Inspired by Virginia Woolf's character, Orlando from "Orlando: A Biography"
Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing and gender studies.
"Twisting copious incongruous strands, then, this elegant fictional portrait gives us the Lord Orlando: proto Emopoet prince; the beautiful, sensitive, brave, lonely, saucy, questing, spaniel-loving toff, with a house the size of a town and a family with exotic as well as indigenous branches to its tree; the romantic who carries in his/her breast through four centuries the life-stained manuscript of his/her one great poem, “The Oak Tree”."
-Tilda Swinton (who played the gender-shifting Orlando in Sally Potter's 1992 film of the same name)
"We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman--there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been."
-Virginia Woolf, "Orlando"
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