The fresco

The view of day is a fountain from which flows the water of life, god Neptune seems to donate it.

Private collection
Year: October 2005
Measures: 234 x 160 cm.
Colours: acrylics, pigments and gold leaf.

The elephant and the donkey

The elephant and the donkey are two complementary animals for they represent the two forces guiding us douring life: the elephant is the animal who always finds the way home, who has memory. So the elephant represents the research to find our real selves; he reminds us that we must find our soul, that we have to go back to our origins.

Opposed to the elephant, there is the donkey, the animal which walks without knowing where he is going. The wheel of fortune leads him, but he doesn't know where he will get to.

Willpower, identity, the search for our real selves against fate and the walk towards an uncertain and unexplored destination, the complete loss of identity.

Hercules and the lion

Hercules represents man facing tests of life, the chances of the wheel of fortune, always remembering the two forces that giude him: the search of himself and the walk towords uncertain destinations

Hercules is usually represented in the lion's skin, because one of the tests he had to get over was truly to fight against a lion, but in this painting the lion is alive: Hercules and the Lion are the masters of the house.

The Neptune

The Neptune staute is the source of the fountain, the source of the water which flows at the bottom of the painting, water symbol of life and origin.

The stone fish

The fish theme, already present in the first painting, returns in this one as a statue spraying water in the fountanin.

The gate

The golden gate is inspired by the gate which stands at the back of the gardens of the villa, near Neptune’s statue.

The wheel of fortune

The wheel of fortune is inspired by an astrolabe, an ancient sailing instrument, it was used to locate the position of the sun.

Hanging

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The paitings in their contest.