Vertumnus and Pomona, 2005

This monochrome canvas that resembles the Italian paintings references a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Together, the sickle of the Roman goddess and the hammer of Vertumnus, who took guises for his beloved, give birth to another mythological symbol of an absolutely different era and context. Employing the artisanal thinking of the Renaissance masters, the artist destroys the concept of genius, which is central to classical aesthetics, and  decrowns the artist's role.