Metamorphosis: Self-Creation

100 × 120 cm / Mixed media on canvas

€2,000

Metamorphosis: Self-Creation seals the moment a woman breaks away from the judgemental, confining and dictating gaze of the outside world and withdraws into her own inner world. The blue butterfly wings covering her face represent the perception of a soul preparing to emerge from its cocoon. The figure turns her gaze away from the outside and towards her own boundless potential. While traditional lotus symbolism centres on rising out of the mud, in this work transformation evolves in a different direction: “I sank into the abyss, swallowed not by mud but by fire. And I was born not from the ashes, but directly from within myself.” The fiery red and purple lotus blooming at the lower centre of the composition represents the deep-rooted strength, passion and will it takes to build one’s existence from nothing. The first work in the series, Metamorphosis: Self-Creation, focuses on the will to build one’s own existence from within. The second work in the series, Incubation, joins this narrative with themes of protection, of hardening into a shell and of silent resistance.