A night in Périgueux

A night in Périgueux 

huile sur toile, 30 x 30 cm. Coll. particulière

instantané 

I always have a mini camera in my pocket, even when I’m naked. In the bedroom of a cottage in Périgueux where I was spending the night, I saw a woman grabbing the towel to step out of a walk-in shower. The woman bathing is a “classic” subject. The shower, revealed in a glass hideaway, a contemporary fancy. The reflected backlight makes the scene exist. The silhouette of the photographer, intersecting the extended body in the curtain’s reflection, eroticizes the situation. The painting adds the necessary unreality to let desire roam. Realism in painting is probably nothing else.