”Contemporary Mona Lisa” was created in the last months of my mother’s life. Yes, of course, it affected me. I wanted to paint the complete opposite of the original painting made by Leonardo da Vinci and the opposite of my mother’s character. Society expected her to be something she wasn’t. So she decided to get ill and die. I was too young to help her. Leonardo searched for the ultimate Beauty in the original painting. But do we understand what beauty is? “Contemporary Mona Lisa” is a presentation of the sick desire of a woman to be forever young. As if only youth is beautiful …