| Eighth in the Genomic Works series, this canvas carries the name
Virginia Woolf, yet the portrait band features a striking image of an African woman—stylized in red and pink tones, set against a multicolored, horizontally striped background. She is not Woolf, nor a literal ancestor, but a symbolic presence: someone whose traits, strength, or emotional textures might echo across generations in ways that defy historical categorization.
The Tarot card drawn here is the 10 of Pentacles, a quiet nod to legacy, inheritance, and the long arc of familial continuity. Its meaning isn’t literal, but its presence reinforces the canvas’s meditation on what we carry forward—intentionally or not.
Surrounding the portrait are vertical bands filled with abstract linework, multilingual text, and cultural fragments. Japanese and Chinese characters, topographic patterns, and geometric textures suggest a fusion of global memory and personal experience. The shimmering genomic bands remain—unreadable, chromatically rich, and unique to this canvas.
Virginia Woolf is not a portrait of a writer, but a reflection on interiority, multiplicity, and the quiet ways identity is inherited, reassembled, and expanded.
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