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THE HOPE OF THE DAMNED

This piece’s main themes are hope, sin, and illusion. The subject portrayed is a disturbing young girl that symbolizes a lost soul’s hopes and useless desire for redemption, a goal which appears clearly unachievable. The white, aseptic world which characterizes the picture has penetrated inside men’s minds, corrupting their dreams and reducing them to useless illusions.  

These hopes appears to be distorted and, even if at a first glance they might seem useful and positive (features symbolized by the left eye), they hide a misleading nature, symbolized by the right, empty eye, which recall the abstract background.

Therefore, dreams become something useless and evil, because humans aren’t able to make them come true, and are consequentially obsessed with the constant conflict between their painful existence and their ideal, impossible desires, clearly evoking A. Schopenhauer’s philosophy.