Blood Roses: a cycle of souls
In these works Stumpf delivers a deluge of red soaked encrusted objects and material, onto surfaces where the death and rebirth of the feminine are invoked.
The provocative subjects Stumpf exhumes are the victims of Jack the Ripper, women who were tortured and killed during the Inquisitions, and baby girls of female infanticide. Almost as a salve, each of the seven paintings is paired and caressed with a poem by Pablo Neruda.
"Yes, these are very physical and horrific themes, but for me they transcend into the spiritual, the symbolic, and the archetypal. You come to see that the Destroyer can be activated within you, annihilating the beautiful, expansive, and tender parts of yourself - not with knives cutting skin, but in the psyche, slicing the feminine piece by piece.
For me there is a profound healing in the making of art, the simultaneous healing of one’s life, ancestral lineage, and collective pain body. It is a mystical and potent act - a shamanistic environ that transcends time and space and has the power of the cosmos. And because energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another, it is a wonder where the soul has been and where it will reincarnate to on its cyclic journey.”
The provocative subjects Stumpf exhumes are the victims of Jack the Ripper, women who were tortured and killed during the Inquisitions, and baby girls of female infanticide. Almost as a salve, each of the seven paintings is paired and caressed with a poem by Pablo Neruda.
"Yes, these are very physical and horrific themes, but for me they transcend into the spiritual, the symbolic, and the archetypal. You come to see that the Destroyer can be activated within you, annihilating the beautiful, expansive, and tender parts of yourself - not with knives cutting skin, but in the psyche, slicing the feminine piece by piece.
For me there is a profound healing in the making of art, the simultaneous healing of one’s life, ancestral lineage, and collective pain body. It is a mystical and potent act - a shamanistic environ that transcends time and space and has the power of the cosmos. And because energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another, it is a wonder where the soul has been and where it will reincarnate to on its cyclic journey.”
Your Soft Silence is Filled with Roots
Baby doll parts, plastic and silk foliage, Christmas ornaments and decorations, fabric, plastic beads, discarded vintage matting and backing board, strips of metal, cord, nails, sand, gesso, house paint, acrylic, and glue on canvas.
48" x 96"
Baby doll parts, plastic and silk foliage, Christmas ornaments and decorations, fabric, plastic beads, discarded vintage matting and backing board, strips of metal, cord, nails, sand, gesso, house paint, acrylic, and glue on canvas.
48" x 96"
Alone Among Rickety Substances (Anne)
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Your Own Crushed Walls, Your Frustrated Infinity (Catherine)
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
A Bouquet of Bloody Roses and Goblets of Ashes (Elizabeth)
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Return to Become a Flickering Ancient (Mary Ann)
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Pale Corpses with Dead-Tressed Women (Mary)
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Plastic and silk foliage, fabric, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, paper from steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, ink, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on wood panel.
80" x 36"
Raise Your Indelible Eyes
Nylon rope that has been unraveled, leather handles, plastic foliage, antler shed tips, glass beads, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, tree bark, piano part, tops of steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on canvas.
48" x 60"
Nylon rope that has been unraveled, leather handles, plastic foliage, antler shed tips, glass beads, old particle board from the truck bed of a 1946 International, tree bark, piano part, tops of steeped tea bags, sand, gesso, matte medium, house paint, acrylic, and glue on canvas.
48" x 60"
