Roses and Their Phantoms

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Tate Modern Gallery, London (the UK).

The plot represents the author’s inner world, transformed by mysterious images and creatures invisible in ordinary life. A table top with a white tablecloth and its well-grooved folds is a repetitive motif in the artist’s work. The theme of homely cozy life seems to continue in the plain white plate depicted in the foreground; however, it seems that it strangely merges with a tablecloth, as if painted on it. In some roses, turned into metal forms, animals can be seen – a sad and ugly creature climbs on the table. The petals of a white flower resemble a crumpled napkin, and the buds that appear on the back wall look like ghosts.