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09 Nov Finding “Nikki”

Posted at 09/11/2020

Hello there,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

These last few days I have been trying to finish a young girl’s portrait, “Nikki”.

As it usually happens with all my paintings, I start knowing exactly what I want to do and while working on it, everything changes. Sometimes I actually tend to believe that the painting decides for its own fate, regardless my will. This is exactly the case with “Nikki”. I started having a vision of an ethereal beauty that is blown by the wind and gradually vanishes in the white background. I wanted it to be loose and dreamy. Everything went as planned until I saw this dream the other night where Nikki was a wild clubber, coming in a club, like a  contemporary madonna with neon pink lights over her blond hair. That was it. She decided something different and I couldn’t do anything about it anymore. I had to follow her will. So, this is where the thing is getting now. I am really wondering how it will come up at the end….

 

love,

Christina

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