Pandora Kaaki

Nothing in her face asks for anything. The painting does the opposite.

Who is Pandora Kaaki?

Pandora Kaaki is a Philippine model and social media figure who publishes her own fashion and modelling work to an audience of over eleven million on Instagram, and also posts to YouTube.

She has worked as a brand ambassador for Fashion Nova and carries an acting credit on IMDb.

This summary is put together from publicly available sources and has not been checked with her. If something here is wrong or she would rather it were not here, write to the studio and it is corrected or removed.

Painting Pandora Kaaki in the studio

I have never worked out how one image manages both at the same time, and Pandora (Dreaming in Blue) is what happened when I tried to find out by painting it. I did not find out. It is still doing both, and now it is doing it at you instead of at me.

That is the most useful thing I can say about this canvas. It is not a puzzle with an answer at the bottom of it. The two readings sit in the same picture and neither one gives way, and a painting is one of the few objects patient enough to keep them both.

Days at a time across several weeks, then nothing, then more. There was no plan. It stopped when I was done with it.

Pandora Kaaki paintings: what exists

Oil on stretched canvas, 100 x 80 cm, signed, one of one, from Painted Idols. Painted from a photograph she published herself, and the painting credits it. A hand-signed print exists in a small edition that is never reprinted.

What is still available, and at what price, is on the cards below.