This photo features artist Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro alongside her new triptych of monotype prints/paintings: “Protect, Defend, Free”. Bound by a shared thread of liberty, each panel explores a different facet of the struggle to preserve individuality in the face of external forces. "Protect", the first panel, speaks to the urgent need to safeguard the space where individuality can take root. A female figure pulls on a shared thread of liberty—an act of resistance against a barrage of falling rocks. These rocks represent the oppressive forces of fear, power, and falsehoods. The image evokes the strength required to hold space for personal truth amid outside pressures. "Defend", the second panel, reflects the ongoing battle to resist forces that seek to silence, divide, or diminish. Here, the female figure wraps the thread of liberty around her body in a fragile yet defiant gesture of self-protection, shielding herself from the relentless fall of symbolic rocks. The piece speaks to the courage needed to defend both truth and unity. "Free", the final panel, reveals that individuality can only truly flourish when it has been both protected and defended. A fallen figure, still clutching the thread of liberty, dreams of freedom beneath a continuing storm of rocks. These symbols of fear, power, and untruth persist—but so does the quiet strength of resilience, and the enduring will to rise.
"Protect, Defend, Free" is a triptych bound by a common thread: liberty. At its heart is pluralism — the idea that freedom thrives only when many voices coexist.
Together, they affirm that liberty is not the rule of one, but the strength of many, woven together.
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