Queen Sakana 2018

Camilla d'Errico’s "Queen Sakana" invites us into a world of sweet dreams and surreal beauty. The artist’s smooth, creamy application of paint makes the whole piece seem to glow with a soft, otherworldly light. Look at the way d'Errico uses color and texture to create the flowing, almost liquid-like, hair of the figure. The paint is applied in delicate layers, with each stroke carefully blended to create a sense of depth and movement. It's like she’s playing with the push and pull of the paint, letting the colors swirl and blend together to create something new and unexpected. The fish with its crown resting upon the girl’s head is the stuff of childhood fantasy. I’m reminded of Mark Ryden’s pop-surrealist paintings with the otherworldly figures rendered in a smooth, airless finish, inviting us into a world of ambiguity where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. Art like this reminds us that there’s always more than one way to see the world.