Title: Monika
Date: 2024
Description: The painting is a self-portrait of the artist, which enabled her to enter the same dimension as the other figures depicted in the “Summer” and “Winter” cycles—women artists, mystics, and writers—and, above all, her mother, Krystyna, who passed away prematurely. These cycles are part of her doctoral dissertation titled Traces of the Goddess in the Web of Multiversum.
The artist imagined this dimension as a web, within whose structure she, along with the other protagonists of her paintings, exists as one of the suspended crystals. In this form, the figures can mirror one another. The act of painting the self-portrait reinforced a sense of community, connection, and the flow of energy between them across time.
The artist is wearing a green sweater. For her, this color symbolizes the heart as an energy center. On a finger of her right hand, she wears a ring with thirteen rubies. “The ruby, child of Mars, tells us of ever-blooming new life, of the mystery of conception and the descent into matter of a being who is an eternal enigma of Heaven and Earth: man! Let us love the flaming ruby and strive for its power to flow into us and transform our souls. So that all which turns life into a garden of torment and a rosary of tears may perish, and a spring of hope for a better tomorrow, for a world of a radiant future, may bloom for us” (M. Florkowa, Secrets of Precious Stones, 1938).
The artist holds something in her hand that shimmers blue. Only she can see it. It is a symbol of the secrets imparted to her by the Goddess while painting the other portraits in the cycle. “I am immersed in many dimensions, in many scales simultaneously. Extrasensory power flows through my body. I see it with my inner eye–heart–womb.”
In the right part of the composition, four pearls are depicted on a single wave. Both elements connect with the regenerative and creative aspects of the element of water.
Technique, dimension: oil on canvas, 42 × 50 cm
First showing: 2026, Alina Foundation
Ownership: Monika Waraxa