Daisy Boman Limited Edition

... It is this stay in South Africa under apartheid that continues to inform her work, and give her the themes that shine out of her recent collection of limited editions. Her best-known works, including these limited editions, feature small, primitive, simplistic fired ceramic figures, with faceless block heads. These figures are called ‘Bo-men’ or ‘Bo-mannetje’ in Daisy Boman’s native Flemish, and symbolize humanity. They are indentifiably the same, yet each one is originally hand-made, so is necessarily individual. The Bo-men metaphorically climb, heave, haul one-another and struggle across the plain white canvas-like background.

"Sometimes it is difficult to put things into words, my works says a good deal more". Alone, but mostly in numbers, Boman's figures climb, interact with each other, fall, crawl, run-telling us stories about life, human destiny and universal feelings. The ‘Bo-men' are there to remind us how much struggle defines our lives in the world. But are we all that different in our struggling? Daisy Boman Limited Editions suggest not, offering us a unique look at ourselves.

Daisy Boman seems to want to remind us that we are all made equal, our only differences inured by the circumstances of our birth.

Both Daisy Boman Limited Editions and Daisy Boman Originals are available internationally, which seems very appropriate.