Lost in translation
On honest painterly linguistic mistakes.
Her hair up and adorned with gold laurel wreaths, a young black woman gazes at the viewer while nursing a baby. Another golden form—this one circular—creates a kind-of halo behind the two figures in Marlena Wilding’s painting, titled “Eve.”
And then there is that conspicuous inscription in thick, white letters on her shoulder.
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