Rinelle Villareal, 2022

James Addison, 2021

Pentimento

A pentimento, in painting, is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". The word is Italian for 'repentance', from the verb pentirsi, meaning 'to repent'. Here, I ask the viewer to question what is the real painting and who is the real artist? Now, two hands are present on the canvas. Is the painting old or new? Traditional or contemporary?