Geraldine Javier's Contemplating Paradise, created in 2007.
The work is part of her solo exhibition 'Living Images Leaden Lives', curated by Roberto Chabet at The Art Center, SM Megamall from 5 - 20 January 2008.

Excerpt from the exhibition essay by Ronald Achacoso:
'The exhibit explores the human condition through cautionary tales and stark images, often appropriated or culled from preexisting photographs and printed matter. Javier contends not so much with 'death of' painting as with 'death in' painting; or rather, with 'life’s proximity to death' in painting. Her fascination in the subject resides in this existential paradox; that in spite of the certainty of ones own demise, we see signs of it everywhere, we won’t be around to observe it when it finally happens to us. In the final thesis, this simultaneous inescapability and elusiveness is the ultimate exotic 'Other'. In Javier’s universe, Paradise is a state of bliss irretrievably corrupted in this realization of the inevitability of death; the loss of innocence, the loss of virtual immortality; and the foreknowledge of death, the true expulsion from Eden.'