The stopover Painting

This painting is part of a series dealing with female intimacy and desire, on which I had been experimenting with hiding part of the image with layers of liquid painting that suggested raindrops or mist. This one was painted during covid-19 pandemia lockdown, so I couldn’t use models. Instead, I searched for reference photos and found on instagram the photographer Alexandre Filipenko (), who had a series of photographs of the model Polina Rissik, nude in a car under the rain. I was particularly impressed by one showing the model touching herself with her legs opened over the dashboard. I was impressed because, despite it was a very explicit image, its eroticism was caused more by what was suggested than by what was shown, and I wanted to accentuate that effect with painting, by painting it more deliberately vague and blurry. Filipenko kindly gave me permission to use that photograph as source image, and I proceed to try to accentuate that seductive ambiguity that the source image inspired me.