Jon Jaylo

The work is in good condition overall, as is the canvas. There is minor wear and handling to the edges, but the paint layers are well-preserved and stable. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed, on stretcher.
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In this recent surrealist piece, Jon Jaylo creates a visual representation of a mother's love, and the bounds that it is willing to break in order to protect everything that it encompasses. Derived from the bible verse psalm 127:3, the artist presents a modern icon having a lower-half body of a circus carousel. The character is created through the similarity of Angelina Jolie because her humanitarian efforts as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been very evident in both national and international scales. On top of that, she has also adopted three children, and also has three biological children. Nursing kids both those who are born of her blood and flesh and those who are not may take quite an effort, but she has shown to be an equally loving parent to all of them. Her likeness here is crowned with a halo to denote that saintliness is not something that is beyond being human. It merely states that it is something that anyone can achieve, given the level of one's faith and supreme devotion towards one thing. Thus it should be treated as a model and an example. With his chimerical clockwork of images, Jaylo shows the inexplicable feeling of comfort once under the shade of a mother's perpetual care. He retains his trademark of whimsical, tasteful colors in this work.

The Carousel is basically a heavy machine that requires a strong amount of strength in order to centrifugate. In this note, the artist expresses a mother's strength and the weight of the cross she carries, walking a path full of painful sacrifices and efforts in order to just ensure the safe survival and maturation of her children in this world. The gravity of this temperament is further represented in the painting through the stigmata found in the mother's hands, resembling the wounds if the crucified body of Jesus Christ.

Because nothing is stronger than the shelter of a mother's love. This allusion is only a small visual testament to that solid truth, and what could simply prove it is the continuing existence of the human race, because mothers are the caretakers of early human life, as it was given by the Creator to them.

- Dave Lock