2024. Acrylic, ink, soft pastel, and collage on paper. 100 x 140 cm. The power dynamics in a family can be damaging and suffocating. Looking at the wall paintings in the Camera degli Sposi at the Ducal Palace in Mantua (Italy), the depicted persons to me came accross as a maffia clan, with the usual roles known from The Godfather. I chose to paint the soft power, represented by the mother and the ‘whisperer’, with the boss reduced to a saddened child.