Description

Oil painting on canvas - 46x55 cm (18x22 inch)


3 years between the original sketch and this oil painted version have helped the concept mature. But it still remains a bit blurry to me, which is not the usual way I process.
Normally I work out the idea and concept until it sounds very clear and coherent, then comes the sketch, and finally the painted artwork.
This one started out as a random sketch and evolved in a very free manner, much like a abstract thinking. But the various symbolistic elements had always been very obvious to me, without being able to explain what they meant. Same for the title: despite its surreal sounding it came out to me in a totally evident manner.

Somehow, like a self-psychoanalysis, I've tried to extract the possible meanings of the character I've happened to create, and tried to understand what she had to tell us.
She is young, and her youth would mean fragility, but she was also given the responsibility of being a Queen, which forces her to hide her fragility behind a severe and cold face.
Inside she suffers from an untold secret, that scares her as much as she can't reveal it.
The kingdom she's reigning over is the realm of man's madness towards progress. The youth and vitality she has always invested in pushing humanity forward has started to get diseased by the eagerness, the lack of trust and wisdom of her people.
Despite the intrinsic force given to her crown she knows she'll be too weak and too young to counter the faith. Love without trust, wisdom without power, that terrible secret she holds behind her feverish forehead is that her kingdom is bound to doom.
The precious sphere, filled with 3/4 water, will no longer be her scepter. Humanity has claimed independence along the path toward her own destruction.

I hope you guys will like the story and appreciate the art. Cheers.