The series of five paintings is based on the novel Orlando: A Biography that Virginia Woolf wrote in 1928. It is a biographical autofiction and is considered a love letter...
The series of five paintings is based on the novel Orlando: A Biography that Virginia Woolf wrote in 1928. It is a biographical autofiction and is considered a love letter dedicated to her girlfriend Vita Sackville-West.
The Revelation is the only painting in which the figure appears dressed and that we could place in the Elizabethan era (the time from where the biography of Orlando in the novel begins). This figure appears falling from one of the fleeing horses. As you can see, the type of animal is always of the same equestrian breed and could be considered as the same one that appears fleeing at different times or as a herd that enters the depths of that forest. The fact of using the same breed of horse tries to allude to one of Woolf's claims from Orlando and that is that we can remain the same or reveal different aspects of our identity without gender becoming a limitation in order to develop.