Description
Marilyn Monroe 2025 | Mixed media and acrylic on textured canvas | 80 × 80 cm Marilyn Monroe is my contemporary interpretation of one of cinema’s most enduring icons. Through geometric forms, sculptural texture, and expressive color, I explore the relationship between beauty, identity, memory, and the image we create of a person. The surface of the painting is built by hand using layered toilet paper as a sculptural medium, transforming an ordinary and familiar material into a textured foundation for the artwork. Once constructed, the surface is carefully shaped and layered with paint, creating raised planes and subtle relief that interact with light. The material becomes almost unrecognizable in its finished form, allowing an everyday object to take on a new artistic and tactile identity. The geometric fragmentation breaks Marilyn’s portrait into individual planes of color, light, and emotion. Rather than presenting her only as a symbol of Hollywood glamour, I wanted to explore the complexity behind an iconic image—the distance between the person, the public persona, and the way she continues to exist in collective memory. Warm golds, earthy tones, deep greens, and touches of blue create a cinematic atmosphere while emphasizing the physical depth of the surface. As light moves across the relief, the painting changes subtly, revealing different textures and details from different angles. For me, this work is about transformation: transforming an ordinary material into art, transforming a familiar image into something personal, and transforming a two-dimensional portrait into an experience of texture, light, and memory. Marilyn Monroe invites the viewer to look beyond the recognizable face and discover the layers beneath the icon.
