Oil paint on wood panel

An amateur artist pursuing an education in fine arts. Interest in forensics and attraction to unsettling ambience is major influence in the artist's style as they figure out an identity as an established painter.

This piece was inspired by the religious icon Our Lady of Sorrows and represents the connection between the joy in creating life with the sorrow that comes from death. The matron saint who is depicted as serene yet mournful simultaneously, she is known for being the life giver of a revered figure. The pain she perpetually endures that is found in all depictions of her is an expression that looks lifeless in itself, lending the inspiration in depicting flies giving live-birth to the ambiguously lifeless gaze of someone who is dead in spirit or truly physically lifeless.