Flora di Stabiae Villa di Arianna
Pompeii. Charcoal and pigments on paper. 33 x 25 cm. 2021,

Flora di Stabiae

Hypatia 60x73 oil and charcoal on canvas. “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
― Hypatia
Hypatia was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor. She is known to have written a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having been interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many modern scholars also believe that Hypatia may have edited the surviving text of Ptolemy's Almagest, based on the title of her father Theon's commentary on Book III of the Almagest.

Hypatia 

Ways of seeing. 2021. Oil colors, pigment and oil pastel on paper. 33x25 cm.

Ways of seeing.

Filosof, is inspired by the way we see ourselves on the our screens and social networks, on the social effects of selfies which are considered as a new visual culture of the new digital society.Internet and latest information technology that create a revolutionary impact in our lifestyle has brought some hidden risks in the new environment that communication is fast and easy, actually.

Filosof

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

This work was inspired by the book of Hélène Cixous The Laugh of Medusa.

Inspired also by the color palette of Yves's Klein, this 3D head of Medusa has been drawn and glitched digitally. 

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SAMANDOVA Yvana