The month of June, is the real month of love!
June is a month of many significance for me personally, and here in South Africa - with my partner of almost 10 years' celebrating his birthday on 01 June, to the celebration of 'Youth Day' in South Africa, commemorating the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976, where more than 20 000 pupils from Soweto began a protest march, clashing with police and violence that ensued during the following weeks. Approximately 700 people, many of them youths, were killed as a result of this uprising.
Internationally, we celebrate International Pride Month and this is what inspired me the most about our month of love. There are a legion of unhappiness and unrest all over the world, with the recent Air India plane crash, the marched and uprising in the USA about immigrants and the Tump administration, the ongoing war in the middle east, with the recent attack on Iran by Israel, and in return, Iran retaliating.
We live in a world of political dominance, all for capitalism as a result of power and greed. I am sad that all of the current, horrible and devastating affairs in the world happens in our month of love, where we celebrate pride in all its many facets.
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"Monochrome Rainbow"
Triptych in mixed-medium on 200gsm Fabriano
Charcoal, graphite, ink and metallic acrylic
By Caelthorne Art |
My latest artwork - a triptych in mixed-medium with charcoal, graphite, ink and acrylic on fabriano, is of great personal value to me, and showcases a vulnerability that I would otherwise not showcase verbally in every sense of the word. It's easier to tell the story, by breaking down each of the art piece instalments as stand-alone artworks, which comes together in unison and harmony.
1. “Dear Angel, Cry Us a Rainbow. With Love, Your Demons”
An open letter in paint and pencil, this piece fuses celestial and infernal metaphors to explore queer emotionality—where joy and pain often cohabitate. The divine cries not because it is weak, but because it feels everything. Gold floods the cracks, offering grace. Pride, in this context, is what rises from sorrow: layered, lush, defiant.
A love note from shadow to light, from mask to soul.
2. “Aesthetically Bleeding Love, with Pride”
Gold tears, fragmented forms, and deliberate symmetry meet in this haunting portrait of vulnerability. A study in contrasts—sharp versus soft, beauty versus brokenness—the piece bleeds not just colour, but meaning. Within its precision is a yearning: to be seen wholly, not in parts. Here, pride is not a performance but an ache made beautiful.
This work reminds us that queerness, too, is survival with style.
3. “Divine Ambiguity and Love, with Pride”
(Previously shared but adapted for cohesion here)
A gaze carved from myth and mirror, this portrait honours the sanctity of in-between spaces. Gender dissolves, gold flows, and ambiguity reigns divine. The work transcends celebration, becoming a shrine to the multifaceted, the fluid, and the fiercely proud.
This is not a face—it is a feeling, drawn in love, crowned in pride.
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A rendition of the triptych "Monochrome Rainbow" by Caelthorne Art, in a living room setting for display purposes. |
I don't want to give too much away on the metaphors and symbols used to conclude the narrative and tell the story behind each work of art, ultimately becoming one.
It's more important for me that you find a relation, a quiet moment, a split second of self-love and expression by either one of the pieces, or collectively as a whole.
I hope that you find a sense of peace, contentment and a re-assurance that everything will always be OK, in the end. I hope that I managed to get through to your soul with "Monochrome Rainbow"... and that it will be the comfort you've been seeking.
With love,
Augustus
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