“Contingency Plan” is a Digital Painting piece that reinterprets Dirck van Santvoort’s portrait of Agatha Geelvinck, transforming it into a new narrative. The young woman portrayed, born into a wealthy family in Amsterdam and deceased only a year after her marriage, is reborn here in a different time and place — a Caribbean island. In this reinterpretation, Agatha becomes a courageous woman embarking on a journey of freedom and self-discovery.
This story resonates deeply with me as a resident of Cuba, an almost surreal island where migration, silence, frustration, sadness, and disillusionment are constantly present due to political circumstances.
This Digital Painting is the base for the Animated Video Art with the same name.
