In this painting from his recent Jungle series, Costantino returns to the figure at the center of his recent work: an Egyptian goddess of grain. The goddess crouches with her head bowed, her body modeled in deep reds and warm ochres. Contours dissolve into soft, velvety gradations, and the image hovers between apparition and flesh. An ancient deity glimpsed in the half light where myth and memory meet.

Francesco Costantino is a Sicilian painter whose canvases read as collages of ordinary and ancient fragments, where forms, bodies, and delicate marks intertwine. Working with rapid chromatic passages, fine lines, and subtle gradations, he transforms everyday experience and mythic imagery into evocative visions. He lives and works in Sicily.