Hidden Treasure

Oil on Canvas - 36x36

Like many of my paintings, this one has many layers. Sometimes I come in with too much emotion and I get rather impatient and then I get stuck. I guess you could say the painting has to dictate where I should go. In this case, I was painting a series of female nudes that was borderline pornography. The final image was so disturbing due to the position of the subject in the photograph and an intense amount of pubic hair. It just embarrassed me because I was going for something raw and it was painfully contrived. So I immersed the subjects' genitalia in a watery grave. The gold was already in the painting. Put whatever value you want in that. I basically turned the landscape of her body part into a landscape of the bottom of the sea, which in turn reflects back to growth and birth. I love blue as a color, as it represents a male principle in painting. I find it calming and spiritual.

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