Blocked, acrylic on canvas, 18" x 14" x 1.5" Our inner self longs to be welcomed into the world, just as we are. Experience builds a wall that cruelly holds us back.
The nude figure represents the artist's true self. Whether the subject is male, female, or differently gendered, the artist enters the spirit of that subject, and embraces the vulnerability, the confidence, or confusion, of the pose, applying their own interpretation of that emotion onto the canvas. Figurative work is inherently self-reflective, and auto-biographical.