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Lydia Viscardi through her soft touch often seems to look back to times that present safe vignettes into a more stylized and maybe better time. Taking for example, in her series: Here and Hereafter, with obvious connotations towards what lies beyond our existence, the works present a version of what could be heaven above and an inferno below and somewhere ‘stuck’ in the middle are Viscardi’s characters often ‘caught’ in idyllic settings of a life presumably undisturbed. The disturbance though permeates the canvas suggesting, naturally a balance but also the limitations of all that lives - …