The challenge is to define the sum of two histories, and reconcile each its origin and becoming. Having lost her native cultural source, the colonized is bound to embrace the culture of the “Mother Country.” This dual self-perception engenders an unconscious mental training, fueled by society's cultural representations of black people, which generate an inferiority complex that transcends time.
In this work, all the elements of iconography are placed to identify Dionysus and Athena. Athena features the recognizable attributes commonly associated with her: the helmet, the owl, and the spear. She is known to be the Goddess of heroic endeavors and stands for numerous concepts and qualities such as courage, inspiration, law, justice, and warfare conducted with fairness. She appears wary but unafraid, cautiously defying the snakes. Showing no signs of frailty, she leans in, as if to grasp the meaning of this Pandora's box. There is a deliberate ambiguity...
