Tadayoi
“I wanted to paint someone who has stopped fighting the water and finds that it holds them up. She has let herself go, lying on her back, head tipped back…
€800 — Popsan
“I wanted to paint someone who has stopped fighting the water and finds that it holds them up. She has let herself go, lying on her back, head tipped back, eyes closed, arms open on either side, palms to the sky. Her hair comes loose in the black water and is lost in it. Here there is no lantern, no flame: it is the water itself that lights up. At the bottom left it brightens to turquoise, and from there pale lines run over the dress, over the throat, up onto the cheek. The veil is so fine that it follows every form like a second water; in the end you can no longer tell the fabric from the reflection. Those reflections I laid down in white threads, nervous, almost trembling. She looks like …
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