Ma “Grosse”

2020
acrylic, black and white, on canvas
220 × 140 cm

Nothing but affection and feeling for a festive snapshot, which still raises a few questions. To render this face, without using photography as a reproducible basis, it was a selfie that allowed him to express it. Admittedly the original had to be slimmed down considerably, made up, cheated a little, to make her look alluring. After several days, absorbed by the detail, and stepping back a few paces….. he exclaimed: “Mum, what are you doing there..?” A magical moment when he has just rediscovered the “family resemblance”…!!