Thanatomorphosis I

"Thanatomorphosis I"
Watercolors, blood, and ink on paper.
32 x 22 cm "The apparent brutality of gazing at yourself being consumed by a mental illness manifests itself through the chaotic line of teeth that emerges beyond its natural limits. The individual, conscious of its evident deterioration, processes this decay the same way the chrysalis experiences it, without a chance of intervention, the jaws of a wasp feeding from its flesh.
The mind, as the cocoon itself, gets attacked since one of its earlier stages —teenagehood/pupa state; the wasp, being a parasitoid of the ichneumon genus, represents the mental disorder, injecting its eggs upon the psyche with the purpose of consuming it alive, causing that later, from the cocoon cannot emerge any butterfly, but its intruders; its assassins.
The blood stain, running from the upper right section of the painting, symbolizes the link between the author and his piece, being himself a victim of a mental illness. The raw and menacing figure depicted on the painting is nuanced by softer and brighter colors, referring the discrete and apparently harmless aspect of the psychological disorders, in contrast with its more sharpened and devastating details."