A healer holding the tools of her trade. Both a nursing student and an immigrant to Italy, She came from... Read More
A healer holding the tools of her trade. Both a nursing student and an immigrant to Italy, She came from the Republic of Togo to finish her studies in Tuscany. In her hand, Loredana holds a sprig of the Achilea or Yarrow. Underneath a simple cloak she wears her traditional dress symbolizing the metaphor for her assimilation into European Culture. The classical genre of oil portraiture is recontextualized to not just celebrate the traditional elite but to represent a new demographic shift.
