The MirrorLindsey
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on stretched canvas
- Size
- 100 × 80 cm, 2 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Lindsey Pelas
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€950
Sold
This one found a wall. There was only ever one of it.
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Returns 14 days ▪ you pay the return
Signed front and back ▪ there is no second one
Certificate of authenticity, in my own name
Painted in Boekel ▪ insured worldwide ▪ unmarked box
Whose point of view
The point of view in this canvas is not mine and it is not yours.
She lifts her shirt just far enough that you almost cannot not look, and she shows nothing. Her weight is on one leg. That is where the balance comes from, and it is why she reads as sure of herself rather than caught at it.
Watch what she is actually looking at. Work out whose point of view it is and the whole painting changes. It took me an embarrassingly long time to see what I had done, and I had done it on purpose.
It stopped because she has no interest in you whatsoever. You are not going to reach her, and once that was on the canvas there was nothing left for me to do.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Lindsey Pelas. Second of two canvases of Lindsey. What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.
Buying is the easy part
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.
