Bonding

by Ksenia Kirkbride

Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
2023

The painting depicts the legend of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, who were raised by a she-wolf after being abandoned as infants.

In the painting, the twin brothers are sitting on a wooden bench, one of them holding the wolf in their arms.

The wolf in the background and the babies in the foreground are painted in a transparent manner; blending together, these represent the meaning of the past that always mentally has a place in the present.

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