As we have mentioned earlier here that the contemporary artist Alexandra Manukyan mainly focused on combining traditional oil painting techniques with surrealist symbolism to seek for a dystopian emotional and physical landscape.

For many years, regardless of all the changes in her professional career, she kept painting and drawing, and stayed true to art. For the past several years, she quitted working for Fashion and Graphic industries, and had been doing fine arts only, and teaching art classes in her studio.

“I depict the psychological condition of the character, so the masks are the symbols of the life role we must play and the accompanying identities like prosthetic limbs are the symbols for the emotional handicap and our shared encounters of pain, loss, desire and longing for serenity and acceptance. Forceps are the symbols of manipulation. Candles are burnt out feelings and dreams that are melting away. Faded backgrounds in white series, represent connection and disconnection of the character with her background, as if the white wash of the background physically erases the personal history of the heroin. Everything becomes irrelevant and in the past, and all the pain and emotional hurt empower her to move forward and find her path”, lovettsgallery read. 

You can see more on her website.