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Title: My Soul Under the Green Moon
Artist: Escalona
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.5 x 20 inches
Style: Surrealism / Symbolist Expression
Description:
My Soul Under the Green Moon is an emotionally charged self-portrait in which artist Escalona lays bare the spiritual anguish and isolation of the soul. Set in a stark, lime-green room, the spectral, emaciated figure—representing the artist’s soul—reaches outward in desperation, holding a crimson cloth and cross high as if clinging to fragments of faith. Five faint stars form a halo over his head, evoking both sanctity and fragility in a state of spiritual implosion.
The small Earth resting beside him on the floor underscores his detachment from worldly matters. Draped loosely in symbolic red, the figure’s body appears vulnerable and exposed, caught in a battle between sacred desire and corporeal existence. The red cloth entwines his limbs like the scars of temptation, shame, and mortal struggle.
Outside the window, under a surreal green moon, lies a tranquil world of ancient architecture and distant church domes—untouched, still, and free. This dreamlike view taunts the soul inside: a vision of peace and divine connection seemingly unreachable from within the confined, vivid cell of existential longing.
Escalona’s My Soul Under the Green Moon is a raw, symbolic reflection of spiritual survival—the loneliness of faith in crisis and the eternal hunger for divine affirmation. It is a visual prayer painted in silence, yearning, and the color of hope.