Black StrapsDeelee

The pose first, and then the way the whole thing sat in the photograph Deelee published. That was enough.

i did not resolve it.

What she is wearing and how she actually is are two different things, and I did not resolve that. I am not sure it can be resolved. There is a light in this canvas that was never in the photograph, and it is there because the contrast needed somewhere to go.

What do you do with it?

Inspired by a photograph of Dutch Deelee. First of two canvases of Deelee. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.

The photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.

Ordering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.

There is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.