The Goddess of Life and Death

Artwork made with gouache on paper.

Artist’s note: The Girl and The Goddess were created in 2016. They served as the catalyst for the comic book Abortion Stories and shaped the final visual style of the graphic novel.
Painted without any preliminary sketches, these deeply intimate and personal pieces were created in a state of intense focus. They exist entirely outside of an intellectual framework, arising instead from raw feeling and emotion before those sensations could crystallize into clear thought.

Beata Rojek is a Wrocław-based multimedia artist whose work—spanning painting, drawing, comics, and animation—consistently explores feminist, social, and political themes.