Three: The Fragile Aboriginal women

Maria Nguyen
Linoleum print on Cartridge

 Throughout the Aboriginal history, the piteous women have been treated poorly. They have experienced violence and abuses. Some are mysteriously gone missing. They also have been murdered cruelly and pitifully but unfortunately no one has ever said a thing about it. This piece of art was made as a sincere voice to show strength and resilience toward them. For this project I unhesitatingly chose rose as my choice of flower. Every kind of flowers have its own beauty but I especially love roses because they will help me to convey a significant meaning in this project.  

     Roses are the most beautiful flowers with variety of brilliant colours and a special, unique and sweet fragrant. Each colour has a very different meaning. Possessing a captivating and attractive beauty, they have always universally represent women, the fragile humankind on this planet. The stem of this rose is in a curved posture like a slender and charming woman. When the viewers observe my flower, they will find a combination of three colours in it. Yellow roses represent friendship, admire, joyful, gladness and delight of a woman which conveys a message that all the Aboriginal women have the right to enjoy these factors in their life. Red roses have a colour language of love, respect and courage. Us, frail women in general and Aboriginal women in particular deserve to be loved, to be protected and to be respected. Blue roses have very special colour compare to others. They symbolize peace and liberty which shows that the Aboriginal women should be free and live in peace instead of lamentably having to face with violence and mistreats. When the linoleum was carved out to form this beautiful flower, it created some white negative space between the colours. White is the colour of purity, innocence and reverence in the Aboriginal women who are totally worthy to be treated gently just like the way people cosset and take care of these flowers.   
      
          This was my first time using the carving tool to create this linoleum print so I was not very professional at it. However, l am still very content and happy with the result that l have got. l hope that people will understand the message that this flower holds after they have read my blog. Sincerely thank you :) !!! And...

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