Jug c. 1938

Yolande Delasser rendered this jug of modest origins in watercolor on paper. The jug itself, humble and utilitarian, bears an image of a flower, a symbol resonant through millennia. The flower, in its myriad forms, represents the ephemeral nature of beauty and life, echoing in ancient Egyptian lotus motifs associated with rebirth, or the Greek goddess Flora, embodying springtime and renewal. In this context, the flower adorning the jug introduces a dialogue between the mundane and the transcendent, a subtle yet powerful assertion of beauty amidst the everyday. It appears to be a form of subconscious rebellion against the industrial, an assertion of nature. Such imagery speaks to our shared, deeply rooted human experiences, bridging the conscious and subconscious, resonating even now. These symbols persist because they tap into something primordial within us all.