Vigoratus Meus Animus Painting

Zapala's painting is complex and a whole mosaic of visions. Passage of artistic perception and construction, certain relations of lines and colours become meaningful. Everything else is subordinated to the evocation of what is implied in these relations, omitted, distorted, added to, and transformed to convey relationships. The painter did not approach the scene with an empty mind but with a background of experiences. She evokes existential questions at the core of human existence "how to navigate in this life". She asks audiences to look beyond the surface, beyond the boundaries of perception, to find deeper psychological meanings. The same word, "symbol", is used to designate expressions of abstract thought, as in mathematics and such things as a flag and a crucifix embodying deep social value and the meaning of historic faith and technological creed.