Chess for one, 2025
Acrylics, mixed media on canvas, interactive
100 x 100 cm

What I dream of is a woman finding her inner presence. This presence can only be found by controlling the strings of her brain and turning the situation into a game. The objects in this work are somehow from my inner world or the inner world of the daughter of Eve. This work depicts a utopian chessboard. The pieces on the chessboard are far from familiar. The white pieces are replaced by art/painting supplies, representing the right hemisphere of the brain, and the black pieces are replaced by chemicals and chemical lab supplies, representing the left hemisphere. Here, art and chemistry can be thought of as dualities, like day and night, right and left, yin and yang.

To create art inspired by chemistry and to study chemistry to create art is the greatest game my inner self plays with me and society. The viewer will also discover that this game is inside them. This game takes place within the viewer. They take the strings of the turmoil into their hands. Science and art are interpretations of things that each viewer has to manage within themselves. This game reminds women viewing the work of how powerful a being she is, possessing the power of all the pieces of the solitaire chess game in front of her. Every woman has situations like this, where she has to manage, more than once, what society expects of her.  But she can turn this situation into a game and reach inner peace.

There are no opponents in this chess game, only you and yourself. As you change the place of each piece, the woman breaks her silence and finds an answer to her inner turmoil. This game means that a woman goes through her labyrinth, replaces her inner chaos with harmony, takes the rope into her own hands, and becomes the master of the chess of fate. This work stands as a mirror for a woman to see her limitless power. It reminds her that every delicate touch and every smart move makes a woman the queen of her reality.