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My artistic research starts from studying a new way of watching and seeing ourselves.
The picture was born from a personal experience and I decided to create a sort of “illustrated guide” on how difficulties can become positive experience of growth.
The picture encoureges to face our problems with faith and trust in our potential, it doesn’t matter the background.
By opening our mind and investing in ourselves, we have the possibility to reach a great self-confidence and we can transform our weaknesses into stregths, like Medusa did.
This painting is made so that the observer’s attention gets immediately caught (by the original position of eyes) and he is brought to think more deeply at the sense of this painting by a deepen look, with the aim to create an emotional involvement and so to connect directly the observer to the painting.
In mythology, Medusa represents the intelectual pervesion, and we see her in this painting in a modern concept, transformed from Victim to Heroine.
The eyes at her breast are her answer to the obsession given to the female body; her eyes are the defense arms against the extremely strict judgements that women has to defend themselves from and that tend to make them feel inappropriate.
To underline the quantity of stregth and sacrifice required to adapt to changes, face and breast are connected by two black cracks, painful but necessary to grow and to become stronger.
The given message is positive and trustful, “Medusa”, in Greek, means “Protectress”; in this painting, I meant protection toward ourselves through love and courage, emotions that, once owned, can bring us towards freedom.
