JULEE
HOLCOMBE Homo Bulla (man is a bubble) Julee Holcombe
received her MFA last year from the Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore. "Homo Bulla" (man is a bubble) is her first
one-artist exhibition. Holcombe selects classic symbols to bespeak the
permanence of cultural conventions that have been codified in artistic
symbolism. In "Homo Bulla" (man is a bubble) two children
blowing bubbles. They are posing with Vanitas Symbols (fleeting, fragile
objects represent the transience of life - they are symbols of mortality;
'vanitas' refers to vain, narcism and superficial appearance). The fragility
of the bubbles, the finality of the hourglass and the smoking candle convey
that youth is fleeting. ... next>>>
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