According to Manzelli (Ravenna, 1968), her paintings - which almost exclusively depict isolated figures of young women - do not stem from portrait-related intentions and are not based on photographs or on the use of models. Instead, these are figures that inhabit the artist's imagination, characters that come alive through psychological tension , allowing them to emerge from the folds of the unconscious.

A female figure is portrayed stretched out: the body is stiffened in an extreme effort that culminates in the pose of the feet, crossed one over the other, according to an iconography that brings to mind the Crucifixion.