Claudia Clare
Nothing Like a Kiss, 2018
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This pot is about Molly Bloom, from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Molly Bloom is the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, a good looking a very flirtatious, clever and opinionated lady....
This pot is about Molly Bloom, from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Molly Bloom is the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, a good looking a very flirtatious, clever and opinionated lady. In Joyce’s novel, Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar on 8 September 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy, an Irish military officer, and Lunita Laredo, a Gibraltarian of Spanish descent. Molly and Leopold were married on 8 October 1888. In Dublin.
A professional singer Molly becomes impatient with her husband Leopold, especially about his refusal to be intimate with her since the death of their son, Rudy and feels that she has no option but to take lovers, and to have an affair with fellow singer Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan.
The final chapter of Ulysses, often called "Molly Bloom's Soliloquy", is a long and unpunctuated stream of consciousness passage comprising her thoughts as she lies in bed next to Bloom.
"I love flowers I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses".
In this work, Clare depicts that final chapter of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy and here re-imagines her in the 20th Century as an erotic fiction writer, lying on her bed with her iPad, thinking about her lover. In the background she can be seen selecting outfits to wear by a long mirror. This work is a celebration of womanhood - about female sexuality and empowerment in the 21st Century.
A professional singer Molly becomes impatient with her husband Leopold, especially about his refusal to be intimate with her since the death of their son, Rudy and feels that she has no option but to take lovers, and to have an affair with fellow singer Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan.
The final chapter of Ulysses, often called "Molly Bloom's Soliloquy", is a long and unpunctuated stream of consciousness passage comprising her thoughts as she lies in bed next to Bloom.
"I love flowers I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses".
In this work, Clare depicts that final chapter of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy and here re-imagines her in the 20th Century as an erotic fiction writer, lying on her bed with her iPad, thinking about her lover. In the background she can be seen selecting outfits to wear by a long mirror. This work is a celebration of womanhood - about female sexuality and empowerment in the 21st Century.