Sanguinus Mundi

"In a world torn apart, even innocence bleeds." 

Mixed media on canvas with three-dimensional elements
Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm

Sanguinus Mundi stands out against a deep black background, where a few glimmers of amber light from the left highlight a desolate and violent scene. A chaotic pile of rubble—fragments of dark bricks and stones—rises, evoking the destruction of buildings that once symbolized protection and stability.

Above this heap of ruins, just above the center of the composition, a bright, glossy red human heart floats, brutally nailed by steel rebars protruding from what remains of a broken pillar. The rebars, once meant to support and provide stability, now pierce it, condemning the heart to bleed profusely. The blood drips through these armatures, flooding the rubble below, almost like a bath of blood that stains everything.

At the top of the scene, crushed beneath a pillar fragment, lies a teddy bear. A symbol of lost innocence, it retains a tender appearance but is marked by deep wounds: red blood flows from its chest, head, and eye, transforming the symbol of childhood into a victim of devastation.

Hidden among the rubble, almost invisible, a partially melted pacifier can be seen, a relic of an innocence now lost. The composition suggests a dual reading: on one hand, the brutality of an external world at war, full of pain and destruction; on the other, an inner world torn apart by trauma and deep suffering. Sanguinus Mundi is a visceral reflection on the cruelty and violence that surround us, whether psychological, metaphorical, or as devastatingly real as the present shows us.