Mixemedia painting made with oil, acrylics and dyes on canvas.
This piece presents materical effects on the surface and bold textures that recalls to the vegetal environment and the natural plants and elements.
Geb is inspired by an archaic Egyptian myth and is also a self-portrait of the artist himself.
Geb, or Seb, is an Egyptian deity belonging to the religion of ancient Egypt. He was the god of Earth, in contrast to most other mythologies, for which he is a female personification.
In the Ennead of Heliopolis he is the son of Tefnut, humidity, and Shu, air, and husband of Nut, sky, with whom he had five children.
As time passed, his name became increasingly associated with ‘Valley’, the habitable land of Egypt, and therefore with vegetation and fertility as well as dominion over animals.
In this way, Geb became a symbol of prosperity, so much so that the succession of a new pharaoh was announced by four wild geese, set free, as a blessing of a long and prosperous reign.
In association with the vegetal element, he is sometimes depicted with plants and fruits on his body and with green or black skin, the color of the fertile land of the Nile.