yamila - Reina de Saba Reconstruida

About the work:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back are included all pertinent data about the work, numbering and signature.
Total dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
Material: High-quality 100% cotton professional canvas, maximum resistance to handling and external agents from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Technique: Giclée printing, renowned for its accuracy and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer desires, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested expressly at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools; she currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensitivity.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the digital art realm, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her environment. Her works subtly and with strong visual force address themes such as beauty, love, sensuality, and female delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to fuse classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The textual texture of her images, masterful use of color, and emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposition of high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The work will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to ensure its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

This work is a contemporary altarpiece of striking majesty, confronting the Western notion of fragility with unwavering aesthetic and spiritual strength. The figure, an ebony-skinned woman with eyes closed in a state of deep introspection or ecstasy, stands as a modern embodiment of royalty and myth.

The artist has reinterpreted the Kintsugi principle not by applying it as a repair of physical fracture, but as the exaltation of a genetic and cultural memory. The gold not only adorns (in the sumptuous turban, metallic lips, and leaf-shaped earrings) but also penetrates the skin, creating a glow emanating from the subject’s depths.

The background, carved with geometric motifs that evoke textile and African sculptural patterns, acts as a throne of textures, reinforcing the narrative of an immutable lineage. The light, dramatic and directional, transforms the face into a sacred mask, where the aureate makeup around the eyes underscores the idea of inner vision and unwavering identity. It is a portrait that not only celebrates beauty, but also encodes it in terms of historical resilience and cultural sovereignty.
My work 'Queen of Sheba Reconstructed' expands the philosophy of Kintsugi beyond the broken object, applying it to the body and the spirit as carriers of a deep historical memory. This portrait is a manifesto of empowerment.

The figure, adorned with precious metal, symbolizes an identity that has absorbed and transcended the fractures and wounds of history — whether personal or collective. The gold acts as the revealer of resilience, suggesting that the legacy of the diaspora or the inherent struggles of existence are not elements to be hidden, but attributes of majesty. Just as Kintsugi transforms repaired crockery into something more valuable, my aim is to show how the reconstruction of the self and the assertion of identity become the pure gold of sovereignty. The result is a beauty that is simultaneously ancient and futuristic, and whose strength lies in accepting its own history.