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2021

Pallas, Camilla, Florencia, Maia 

50 x 70 cm

Oil on Canvas

The warrior huntress Pallas is juxtaposed/superimposed with my daughter Maia arched against a graffiti covered Florentine Wall (Florence, Italy). Pallas, also known as Camilla or Florencia is a figure from the painting “Pallas and the Centaur “by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Pallas is a figure of reason, restraining the beast of our nature and a personification of Florence. My daughter was born in Florence Italy and this is part of my series of Exposures.

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