#pintures

"Mystic Rose" (1894) by the Valencian painter Francisco Laporta Valor. Oil on canvas.

The painting represents the Virgin Mary in a symbolist aesthetic. Surrounded by Marian symbols such as the white lilly, this young Mary stares intensely with roses -symbol of innocence- on her lap.

I’m not talking about simply going out into nature, but about what it holds within: lingering, silence, the slow unfolding of our thoughts, perceiving reality as it is — without distortion.

I long for that state in which — not in a spiritual but in a physical sense — we can break free from the artificial world we live in, and which we are compelled to accept.

I want to be bored.

Like a shepherd with his flock, or a miller as the mill grinds.

Untitled diary 34

Acrylic on canvas, 40 X 50 CM, 2025

Grace Charlotte Rose