Original artwork description:

Artwork inspired by the "bacchanal," a Roman festival dating back to the second century B.C. that took place in the open countryside, among trees and rocks outside temples. It derived from rituals dedicated to Bacchus, the god of ecstasy, wine, intoxication and liberation of the senses; it thus came to represent the essence of creation in its perennial and wild flow, the divine spirit of boundless reality, the primal element of the cosmos, the spiritual irruption of existence understood in the absolute sense, the frenetic current of life that pervades everything. Such rites were believed to be propitiatory of the gods on the occasion of the sowing and harvesting of the crops. Similar to the cult of Dionysus in Greece, this was originally reserved only for women, the "Bacchae", for mystical purposes.

Materials used:

Acrylic and ink on cardboard

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