I know I am best known for my erotic artworks. And it's been a long while since I have done anything erotic. People have been complaining.
So here is a brand new erotic painting, finished today. I used some of my casting experiments. I took a mold of a hundred-year-old bronze I picked up in Paris of a pair of women making love. It was a very deep mold and when flattening out the relatively thin casting to collage onto the painting it became wonderfully distorted, like one of those azimuthal equidistant maps of the world. I mounted it onto a background of chess squares and added some of the female torsos as other chess pieces, one or two already taken. No Pawn intended.
The Black Tower with the female torso enclosed within made me think of the passage in Song of Solomon: We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
There are lots of Towers in the Song of Songs and they mean different things. In this case She is a Woman, hidden and mysterious.
Acrylic paint, silk and 22k gold leaf on paper. 10 x 13" (25 x 35 cm.)
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