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This oil painting series is an artistic manifesto. It borrows its title from a verse of
Charles Baudelaire's poem "The Condemned Women" in his Flowers of Evil:
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Woman here below can serve only one master!"
But the girl pouring out the vast grief in her heart,
Suddenly cried: "I feel opening within me
A yawning abyss; that abyss is my heart!
Burning like a volcano and deep as the void!
Nothing will satiate that wailing monster
Nor cool the thirst of the Eumenides
Who with torch in hand burn his very blood.
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