The principle of Archimedes

This painting is the first piece of my BFA final project, and it focuses on the pain associated with the failure of future life projects. The title refers to the physical law that explains why some objects, even very heavy ones, float on the surface of the water while others, much lighter in reality, sink to the bottom. The same logic can be applied to life: sometimes there are things that go wrong because it is not really possible to arrange them in any other way, even though they seem like a good choice; they are wrong combinations, pebbles that no matter how light they seem you cannot make floating. The painting represents a series of objects sinking or already gently abandoned on the bottom of a deserted swimming pool: they are surflifesaving mannequins, which recall the idea of rescue; a fin, tool in which I could identify myself as swimmer; and two wedding dresses, with colored reflections that alter their perception, signs of the shipwreck of a future that seemed already outlined. On the water surface, invisible to the eye but perceptible indirectly through the shadow that stands out on the bottom, an empty life buoy: there was an attempt to save that future in which once I believed, but it was not successful, and what remains now are only the objects, silent signs of what happened.