Rosa Triplex

My own interpretation of Rosa Triplex, originally painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1874.

Triple portraits have long existed in the history of art, but Rossetti approached them differently, not as studies for sculpture, but as a way to reveal the beauty of one woman through multiple perspectives.

This type of portrait echoes the Three Graces and the Three Fates, a connection that feels particularly close to my own artworks. The idea of multiplicity has always been less about duplication, and more about the coexistence of different states within the same figure.

Rossetti’s brother, William Michael Rossetti, described Rosa Triplex as part of a larger dialogue, intended to accompany The Rose of Yesterday and The Return of Tibullus to Delia.

This version is my way of stepping into that conversation, translating it through photography, while holding onto the same sense of multiplicity, symbolism and subtle tension.