"For many years I kept this piece with the intention of painting it some day, the figure was modeled by Romain Van der Bogaert about decade ago, the idea seduced me a lot, it represents a young girl having an orgasm, but there was something that did not fit me. The girl's face was strange to me, although the idea and the pose were very attractive, the fact is that I left it in my drawer for years, hoping to meet it again sometime in the future.
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At a given moment, modify the piece, adding hair, subtly lengthening certain parts of the figure. I found myself without looking for him, with a tremendous resemblance to an ex-girlfriend.
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The important thing was not any person in particular, although the fact that with long hair looked like an exgirlfiend, made the piece more and more clear in my head and I imagined that I could work with that memory This gave me the perfect opportunity. Relating the figure to someone I knew made the images appear in my head with ease. However, I was relieved by the fact that no painful or conflicting memories were resurrected in me, as could have happened with the memory of other people. That is to say, it was a well-known memory for me, which made me understand much better what I wanted to represent; but at the same time it was a memory devoid of any emotional ties. What allowed me to treat it with a certain distance, and not let me dominate by the piece itself...
TEXT FROM THE BOOK "banshee, a colourful mind" , published and edited by Scale75"