I scrolled past her and went back. It was the sweat. At that point I decide nothing, I just save it, and then it sits there until it starts asking for something.
Months later I began painting. Days at a time, then a week of nothing, then more days. That is not a technique, it is how long it takes me to look at one image properly. This photograph was built for three seconds of someone's attention. I spent weeks inside it.
At some point it stops. Not because the painting is finished, but because I am. The image has been dealt with, it no longer pulls at me, and I can go to the next one.
Something in this one is faintly vulgar and it never once tips into cheap. I painted her four times and I still cannot find the line it walks.
What do you do with it?
Original oil painting on stretched canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Signed, one of one. This is a unique work, not a print and not an edition.
From Saved, a series of oil portraits of women whose own image is their work.
Painted in my studio in Boekel, the Netherlands. Ships insured from the Netherlands. Certificate of authenticity included.
Inspired by a photograph of Riae Suicide (@riae_).
I scrolled past her and went back. It was the sweat. At that point I decide nothing, I just save it, and then it sits there until it starts asking for something.
Months later I began painting. Days at a time, then a week of nothing, then more days. That is not a technique, it is how long it takes me to look at one image properly. This photograph was built for three seconds of someone's attention. I spent weeks inside it.
At some point it stops. Not because the painting is finished, but because I am. The image has been dealt with, it no longer pulls at me, and I can go to the next one.
Something in this one is faintly vulgar and it never once tips into cheap. I painted her four times and I still cannot find the line it walks.
What do you do with it?
Original oil painting on stretched canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Signed, one of one. This is a unique work, not a print and not an edition.
From Saved, a series of oil portraits of women whose own image is their work.
Painted in my studio in Boekel, the Netherlands. Ships insured from the Netherlands. Certificate of authenticity included.
Inspired by a photograph of Riae Suicide (@riae_).
