Yellow Coated Banshee (as a contemporary feminine archetype)

Concealed by her owl mask, a modern banshee emerges poised between human presence and spectral omen. She wears a long yellow coat that cuts through the surrounding atmosphere like a warning flare – symbolizing her psychological alertness; an assertion of womanhood and awareness in the world. Yellow speaks to caution and clarity, to the courage required to be seen and to speak truths before they are believed.

Her face is concealed by an owl mask, replacing the traditional scream of the banshee with silent watchfulness. The owl, long associated with wisdom, suggests an ability to see what others cannot—particularly in emotional shadow.

Together, the mask and coat frame the figure as both observer and messenger, embodying a shapeshifting state that moves fluidly between protector and prophet.

This banshee is not a figure of terror, but of agency. She inhabits thresholds: between myth and modernity, vulnerability and power, warning and witnessing. This yellow coated version reclaims the banshee as a contemporary feminine archetype—one who transforms grief into insight, fear into foresight, and silence into embodied knowing.

23"x36" Yellow Coated Banshee