拍品專文
In writing about this painting to her brother, Dr. Rodrigo Varo, the artist comments:
"this painting is part of the project I planned when they commissioned those murals for the Cancer Pavillion, which, in the end I did not want todo. On the upper portion of the picture we can see part of the zodiac circle...Scorpio, sagitarius and Capricorn, each in its little ship (it is to be assumed that the rest of the zodiac remains outside the painting). As you can see, they are tugging with their hand at celestial substances which then come out of the ships' exahust pipes. Each of these pipes is shaped like the corresponding zodiac sign. The celestial substances then fall into a kind of temple where, after convenient spiritual and chemical transformation, diverse creatures are produced. The creatures leave the temple and go into the world. When they leave, they are all white and are all wrapped in the same white cloth, as if it were a celestial placenta. when the creatures detach themselves from each other they take on color.
On the one hand I am trying to suggest a kind of determinism, and on the other hand, a type of harmony, the latter suggested by the astral motor which moves the little ships and which acts as one. In the part of the project that I did not paint in this picture, the lack of harmony was represented by a horrible shipobeying thecommands of two motors, etc." (O. Paz, Remedios Varo, p. 173)
"this painting is part of the project I planned when they commissioned those murals for the Cancer Pavillion, which, in the end I did not want todo. On the upper portion of the picture we can see part of the zodiac circle...Scorpio, sagitarius and Capricorn, each in its little ship (it is to be assumed that the rest of the zodiac remains outside the painting). As you can see, they are tugging with their hand at celestial substances which then come out of the ships' exahust pipes. Each of these pipes is shaped like the corresponding zodiac sign. The celestial substances then fall into a kind of temple where, after convenient spiritual and chemical transformation, diverse creatures are produced. The creatures leave the temple and go into the world. When they leave, they are all white and are all wrapped in the same white cloth, as if it were a celestial placenta. when the creatures detach themselves from each other they take on color.
On the one hand I am trying to suggest a kind of determinism, and on the other hand, a type of harmony, the latter suggested by the astral motor which moves the little ships and which acts as one. In the part of the project that I did not paint in this picture, the lack of harmony was represented by a horrible shipobeying thecommands of two motors, etc." (O. Paz, Remedios Varo, p. 173)