oil on canvas, 200×149,5 cm
signed and dated lower right '84 P. Conti
The motif of the heraldic figure, which Conti has developed for over a decade, is found to be extraordinarily exalted, in the case of the Plumb line, The painting's unusually large dimensions highlight the hieratic nature of the composition. Along the almost invisible axis of the golden thread, which seems to symbolically reunite the intellectual and carnal spheres, the work's height and depth, the figure withdraws into herself, accentuating through her posture her apparent function as the regulator of human destiny.
