David Trebenski
Sanguine
Illustration
2022
digital media
12x16
The word “Sanguine” meaning “ cheerful, hopeful, and vivacious” refers to an old medicinal theory known as the four humours in which certain conditions were thought to be caused by an excess of one of four fluids. Sanguine was thought to be a condition caused by an excess of blood.
Work by
David Trebenski
illustration
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