Decades

"The cuckoo is a pretty bird , it sings the sweetest song I've ever heard" (pulp, cuckoo song). The birds and their songs and the dichotomies of nature and culture, wilderness and civilisation, activity versus passivity always keep a major part in silvia sun's paintings. Here, seduction, longing, vitality (simbolised in the grapes, the birds, the singing birds) are contrasted with Freud's severe and scrutinising eyes and the leafless, skeletonlike tree. The title refers to the painting's long date of creation (more than a decade); time, however, is also essential for the growing of mushrooms like chanterelles, which can not be cultivated, despite of many – ineffective – attempts.