Sisters 14x22” oil on panel 2013 Golden head by golden head Like two pigeons in one nest Folded in each other’s wings... Cheek to cheek and breast to breast, Lock’d together in one nest. (Christina Rossetti, “The Goblin Market,” ll. 184-186, 197-198) - Katherine Stone www.katestoneart.com | Vancouver Island, Canada “Sisters” was directly inspired by Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” a dark, fairy- tale-like Victorian poem about two sisters whose love for each other empowers them to overcome a malevolent spell. In the dark of the night, one sister lies wakeful and protective while the other slumbers uneasily, her heart and mind fettered by dark- ness and her body wasting away. Rossetti, sister of the famous artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, remained unmarried and became a well-known advocate of fallen women; for over a decade she was a volunteer worker at the St. Mary Magdalene “House of Charity” in Highgate. In light of her social work and life story, one could interpret her poem to be a commentary on the danger of romantic love, and the salvation of sisterly love.

Katherine Stone · Katherine Stone | Vancouver Island, Canada “Sisters” was directly inspired by Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” a dark, fairy-tale-like Victorian

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Sisters

14x22”oil on panel

2013

Golden head by golden headLike two pigeons in one nestFolded in each other’s wings...Cheek to cheek and breast to breast,Lock’d together in one nest.

(Christina Rossetti, “The Goblin Market,” ll. 184-186, 197-198)

Katherine Stonewww.katestoneart.com | Vancouver Island, Canada

“Sisters” was directly inspired by Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” a dark, fairy-tale-like Victorian poem about two sisters whose love for each other empowers them to overcome a malevolent spell. In the dark of the night, one sister lies wakeful and protective while the other slumbers uneasily, her heart and mind fettered by dark-ness and her body wasting away. Rossetti, sister of the famous artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, remained unmarried and became a well-known advocate of fallen women; for over a decade she was a volunteer worker at the St. Mary Magdalene “House of Charity” in Highgate. In light of her social work and life story, one could interpret her poem to be a commentary on the danger of romantic love, and the salvation of sisterly love.