Daphne's Metamorphosis

Green and violet volutes intertwine with glowing red and pink bursts, like a body in full transfiguration. Here, legend takes form: Daphne, pursued, transforms into a tree under divine impulse, her flesh becoming sap. The elongated strokes of the knife, resembling vines or leaf veins, suggest the slow fusion of human and vegetal. Violet brings a mystical aura, while the reds and pinks still vibrate with carnal energy, soon to be absorbed by nature’s green embrace. This painting does not recount the chase, but the suspended instant of surrender: the moment when Daphne ceases to be woman to become laurel, an offering to eternity. The light, bursting at the center of the canvas, illuminates this metamorphosis like a revelation. “Daphne ‘s Metamorphosis” invites us to reflect on the fragile alliance between desire and transcendence, on the beauty of a passage where life reinvents itself in another form.