Original artwork description:

"Quo Vadis"- this Latin question is addressed to the world. In this picture, the main heroine plays the role of the conscience of the world, it is like Polish Stanczyk. A clown of the world, but at the same time a thinker of the world. She holds a globe that tells about the future and sits on the globe. The whole scene is played out on the chessboard as a symbol of the world. Cards as a collar are a symbol that life is often a game, ruthless. We see the fallen great players of the world (chess pieces). Ladders rise to the sky to reach unreachable colored orbs. They symbolize the race for the unattainable. A rocket flies behind. But this is not a normal rocket. It is a rocket that is somehow supposed to be associated with a church building, with a cross, an almost inverted cross. I want a Church that we are supposed to send into space today in Poland and in the world, because we humans do not need one (hypocritical, full of pathology, medieval and stupefying). I want this painting to convey this message. Especially my thanks go to very beautiful French model Alicia Tadrist, who allowed me to use her image, to the photographer Jean-Marc Bulles, the author of Alicia`s photo, which became an inspiration to create the image.

Materials used:

oil

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