Portfolio Description

Melpomene

55x90cm

oil, acrylic, canvas on a gallery stretcher

2022

year of creation

Reveals 3 themes:
1. The dualism of being: despair, hopelessness, mortality (shown through the Christian symbol of the approach of the Last Judgment — the image of poppies) and hope, faith (the image of a white rabbit).
2. Human psychology: This girl is the inner child of each of us, who met with the face of the world. And no matter how strong an adult person is, his inner child will never be ready for the events that are happening now. White rabbit — hope and dreams. And the hands are unclenched — there is no strength to hold them.
Vulnerability and physicality: The fragile physical shell and dependence on the circumstances of the external world confronts a person with the illusory “I will live forever» feeling.