Lady Democracy

2024 - 2026

Oil painting of a woman wearing a radiant headpiece, inspired by the Statue of Liberty, rendered in expressive, warm tones against a dark background.

Lady Democracy IV

2026 Oil on Linen 55 x 33 cm

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Porträt einer Frau als moderne Freiheitsikone, kombiniert aus Ölmalerei und Collage-Elementen auf rosafarbenem Grund, inklusive historischer Kartenausschnitte.

Lady Democracy V

2026 Collage, Leaf Metal & Oil on Canvas 55 x 33 cm

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Frontal portrait of a woman with a radiating crown before graphic city forms in green and ochre tones.

Lady Democracy III

2024 Oil on Linen 55 x 33 cm

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Low-angle portrait of a woman with a blue headscarf and a radiating crown against a blue-grey ground.

Lady Democracy II

2024 Oil on Linen 55 x 33 cm

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Collage portrait of a woman with a liberty crown, painted face, and a gold-toned background.

Lady Democracy I

2024 Leaf Metal, Collage & Oil on Linen 50 x 50 cm

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The Statue of Liberty was designed as a European ideal—in the neoclassical canon, without meaning the people who arrived in chains beneath it. This series passes the crown on.

Fragments of real history are woven into the first painting: the entrance gate of Auschwitz, Indonesian freedom fighters, lines from Victor Jara—murdered after the CIA-backed coup of 1973—and an inverted map fragment reading Gaza. Fragile gold leaf holds the layers together. The two subsequent paintings strip the composition down to the face alone: fractured, colorful even in shadow.