Description
She is kneeling. Red burns all around – a symbol of rage and urgency. Yet from the lips of the female figure comes only white: a breath of smoke that becomes a dove, rises and sets itself free. Her joined hands and half-closed eyes are the sign of deep concentration. The white turban wraps her head with the solemnity of a sacred veil, trailing all the way down to the ground.
Habemus Pacem is a Surritratto about inner conflict – not the kind fought between peoples or nations, but the kind waged inside every human being who has learned to transform rage into a gesture of peace and forgiveness. The womb here is an ancient medieval helmet, emblem of dispute. It is the body bearing the marks of the emotional gap between what has been lived and what one chooses to offer. Around her feet, red poppies: beauty growing where there has been pain.
Velimna constructs this figure with great technical mastery – the rendering of the skin, the draping of the fabric, the evanescence of the white cloud – and places her against a red background that is not decorative but emotional. It is the temperature of someone who has passed through fire and chosen, despite everything, to blow a dove. A large-format work of commanding presence.
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