Lydia's choice to display Amrita Sher-Gil's Three Girls alongside the Baba Yaga puppet in her studio reveals a profound symbolic alignment between the painting and her own identity struggles. Sher-Gil, a pioneering artist of mixed European-Indian heritage who painted in 1930s colonial India, serves as a spiritual predecessor to Lydia's own artistic and cultural journey. The painting represents Lydia's unconscious search for models of mixed-race identity that transcend colonial shame—much as Sher-Gil's work celebrated Indian femininity during a period of cultural suppression. By positioning this artwork next to Yaga, Lydia creates a visual dialogue between two representations of female power that exist outside conventional Western frameworks: Sher-Gil's dignified portrayal of Indian women and the Slavic folk figure who defies social expectations. The 'three girls' themselves may mirror Lydia's fragmented sense of self—her human origins, her vampiric present, and her...