This is a bold contemporary interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The familiar expression is preserved, but the context, palette or form may be disrupted, reimagined or modernized.

Through abstraction, distortion or symbolic layering, this work questions identity, authorship and the role of beauty in contemporary culture and the clip-based thinking. The abstract and structural background runs through the painting and through the hand, which is made of clay, going beyond the frame of the painting.