The Blue Astronomer I and II - The Rap Artist

The Menina,  Isabel de Velasco, appears in the painting Las Meninas on the right-hand side of the Infanta Margarita Theresa. Attached to her writs are red corsages, worn during the 16^th and 17^th century to ward off disease and evil spirits.

The role of the Menina’s was to serve the Queen  and the princesses at court, to be beautiful, agreeable, and quiet decoration. In my fictional character Isabel is a Rap Artist, she wears a hoodie and takkies and  her voice can be heard through a microphone. She is no-one’s maid in waiting, standing politely to the side, instead she invites the evil spirits to do her bidding.