"My Rosary" - Filomena Reale

Technique: Pastel on pastelmat paper
 Size: 50x70 cm + frame
 Year: 2023


 "MY ROSARY" is a work that expresses profound religious symbolism through the use of pastel. The painting features a pale blue background that evokes a sense of peace and spirituality, a delicate homage to Mary. At the center of the composition, an olive branch with leaves and ten olives, entirely colored blue, stands as a symbol of hope, peace, and redemption. On the blue background, directly behind the olive branch, is a white cross, simple yet powerful in its meaning. The cross, a central symbol of the Christian faith, immediately evokes sacrifice and rebirth, key elements of the painting's religious message. Around the olive branch are four decades of a rosary, made of light-colored wooden beads. The beads intersect with the branch and the cross, creating a weave that represents the unity and interconnection between prayer, faith, and nature, like a thread uniting the human and the divine.