Witch Polissena - The Gift
They tried to brand our skin with fire, but our wounds shine, and our magic illuminates the night like the moon.
1. An Unspoken Spell
I have seen the world burn in my eyes, yet I have never looked away. Every mark on my skin is a fragment of my story, a past that continues to exist.
2. They Wrote My Fate on My Skin
They inflicted their judgment upon my body, but I transformed that pain into a symbol of resilience. Like all those who survive violence, I move forward, despite everything. That mark remains, part of me. In its scar, I find my strength.
3. Forbidden Magic
My magic burns beneath my skin, dances in the shadows, shatters into fragments of light chasing each other through the fibres of the universe. They cannot grasp it. They cannot stop it. It is already rising into the air, dissolving, recomposing, slipping through the cracks of time, whispering forgotten words to the stars. And it laughs, because they think they have extinguished it, but it is already elsewhere, setting the night ablaze.
Analysis of the Three Images of the Witch
The intense gaze, emphasised by bold makeup, becomes the focal point of an ancient and unspoken force. The eye is a window to the soul, an instrument of knowledge capable of seeing beyond the surface of reality. It is an unspoken spell, a call to the memory of the women who have seen, known, and defied.
The body is a canvas on which history is inscribed. The wound crossing the skin transforms pain into something sacred, like an ancient inscription left by time and violence. Gold, a symbol of value and transcendence, here becomes an act of resistance: suffering is not hidden but elevated, recognised, and sanctified. This wound becomes both a map of the fate imposed upon her and proof of a resilience that refuses to be forgotten.
The moon is the heart of the night and mystery, a symbol of a power forbidden because it has never been truly tamed. Its golden light, like an ancestral call, brings us back to the women persecuted for their freedom, for their mastery of knowledge. Within it lies their luminous and indestructible revenge