CIGARETTE PORTRAIT NO. 2 Painting

RITRATTO ALLA SIGARETTA N.2 - canvas cm.43x50 - Technique: Mixed media with enamels and dripping on canvas. In this collection inspired by a woman smoking, and the sensual attitude that only she knows or can assume. The ‘cigarette portrait’ of photographic memory from the past, drives me to seek out unusual poses of female smokers, as I will show later. The portrait itself, it fascinates me, the enigmatic and mysterious image, and its own identity, which in many is equivocal, or counterfeit. In fact, the faces portrayed show thoughtful expressions some, absent others, or charming, caught up in the common need to ‘be such’ and not ‘have to appear’. The search for one's identity, which drives one to true self-knowledge, and the realisation that everything in life is semblance. Authentic work executed by me in a single copy.