02. Influence (DATA)

This is the second painting of the "DATA" project.
As we can see there is a portrait of a boy in this early adolescence placed as a sculpture on a marble block. There are black fingerprints on his face, caused by the hands that are near him. In this piece the child is being exposed to the new environment where he is influenced by his surroundings. His bright face reflects his spirituality and pureness which is being covered with the dark fingerprints which poison the figure with new ideas. The child doesn't know how to cope with these ideas and the fact that he's placed without his torso suggest that he can't avoid this event which gives a sinister vibe to the composition. The aesthetics of the material world from now on are characterized with the black background (which gives the silent psychological depth to the painting) and the white figures with sculptural feel (which come in focus as we are pulling them from our subconscious mind).