"I Make Clothing To Dress My Paintings Up, I Paint Naked Bodies Because That Is How I Feel… Unprotected, Defenseless, Exposed And At The Mercy Of Our World. Like A Child That Didn’t Learn The Right Things, Didn’t Have The Right Tools. So I Paint, Dance, Photograph, Film, Create, Capture & Expose My Fragility, My Humanity, My Limbs, My Soul, My Wounds, My Pain, My Love."
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COLLECTION #AUTOPORTRAITS #SELFREFLEXION (#oilpainting )
« To me it is evident that what we see in others is often a reflexion of a part of / something in ourselves.
I wonder; Is what we see intact, or is it modelled after our own preconceived ideas, education and believes?
At first I was not sure if I was painting myself, I was only painting a naked woman, but little by little I could observe some similarities.
In everything we are doing, we put a part of ourselves, or see a part of ourselves; here and there, somewhere lies our own reflexion .
We can only create what we are, what we know, how we experience, how we perceive a thing.
It feels interesting To be aware of what you see and express, understanding that no one, nothing, is really something else than yourself.So I decide to dedicate and develop a series of auto-portraits in which I could see myself evolve and observe it, year after year.
Here is only the beginning of it: the first paintings that I have decided to include have been made in 2021; but most of them in the year 2023- 24There is the thematic of the sexual body being part of every painting of this collection. Is it actually a sexual body? Or only a natural body?
Is it the reflexion of some instincts? Animality? Natural body?
Or is it the result of past Abuse? Trauma?I have myself not yet discovered the reasons and enjoy exploring my own lost memories and present feelings.
I enjoy observing the interpretations that others can have of my work, as a dialogue with their soul»
Collection_ AUTOPORTRAITs_SELfREFLEXIONS#OILONCANVAS 
