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This painting is about duality—life and death, beauty and absurdity. I was inspired by the resilience of the female form and the haunting persistence of memory. By giving this nude figure a skeletal head and a soldier's helmet, I wanted to express the idea that even life-givers are protectors, even death has a feminine face. While painting it, I felt both empowered and disturbed. It made me think about the role of women in war and survival, and the complicated mix of creation and destruction we all carry inside.
Bold primary colors—deep blues, earthy yellows, and cadmium reds—dominate the composition. The skeletal face grins almost defiantly under the olive-green helmet, while the body is voluptuous and warm. The pose is vulnerable, hands resting on a round stomach, yet confrontational. The piece uses hard outlines with painterly brushstrokes, evoking elements of German expressionism and Mexican surrealism. There’s humor here—but it’s dark and reflective.
This painting is about duality—life and death, beauty and absurdity. I was inspired by the resilience of the female form and the haunting persistence of memory. By giving this nude figure a skeletal head and a soldier's helmet, I wanted to express the idea that even life-givers are protectors, even death has a feminine face. While painting it, I felt both empowered and disturbed. It made me think about the role of women in war and survival, and the complicated mix of creation and destruction we all carry inside.
Bold primary colors—deep blues, earthy yellows, and cadmium reds—dominate the composition. The skeletal face grins almost defiantly under the olive-green helmet, while the body is voluptuous and warm. The pose is vulnerable, hands resting on a round stomach, yet confrontational. The piece uses hard outlines with painterly brushstrokes, evoking elements of German expressionism and Mexican surrealism. There’s humor here—but it’s dark and reflective.