Nearly a year ago I had mentioned a particular artist that had entrapped my imagination and really inspired my desire to get back into the world of art.
https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1007668
I could not name her, I could not place her, I just saw a piece of her art and was spellbound. Well I have found her. I was working on devising an outlook for my original character Victoria from APT: 1012 and using several online databases like Google and Bing to assist in reference information for Modern Femme Fatal's. I was given an entire array of images and I saw that painting of a woman eatting planets again and knew I found the artist that had eluded me from a year ago.
https://twitter.com/tanyashatseva
It is very amusing to think a woman eating planets can be used as a theme to describe the Modern Femme Fatal.
Would I consider Victoria to be that kind of woman, one who eats planets? https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/apt-1012-cover-page I think she has the potential for it. Where i desire to hold the universe in my hand, she desires to control and gather everything up for her own pleasure. A black whole and the center of her own universe. It is too early in her story to suggest that this had a lot to do with the abuse she suffered. Had she realized her actions would have led to robbery and rape, I wonder if she would have changed how she treated people. Of course I am not justifying Dino's actions by any means..I still think he is the scum of the universe!
Of course as the Russian artist has depicted so well in her works of art, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction; and seeking to ignore the recourse Dino took to tip the scales of Victoria's need to eat the planets of his universe with her laughter and need to ridicule and debase those that could not afford her favors. Well we are made to wonder, if Tanya's definition of the Femme Fatal is not spot on!