Linfa
book cover

A watercolor artwork created to be the cover of a novel now on sale in Italy. The piece has a literal visual interpretation and a conceptual subtext, both closely linked to the novel: in a pandemic apocalyptic setting, a plot of violence, horror and doubt about the social contract and human life on Earth unfolds. In my painting the viral ramifications are a direct representation of the disease that forces humanity to extinction, causing it to bleed, but the destruction brought on humanity becomes an opportunity, sap, for rebirth and so going up the painting, rather than going down, those pathological lesions become branches or shoots of a new human life, but barren. They mark a rebirth, but also a possible failure of the human path that repeats itself, blood and lymph, because the idea that society can progress as a result of its mistakes is a yearning, but above all a delusion.

 

“Linfa”, 21x29cm watercolor on cold pressed paper, cover illustration for “Equilibrium – morire non ti salverà” by Dominique Jean Paul Stanisci, Bertoni Editore.