Dreaming in BluePandora
Willem van der Krieken
- Technique
- Oil on stretched canvas
- Size
- 100 × 80 cm, 4 cm deep
- How many
- One of one, there is only this canvas
- Credit
- after a photograph of Pandora Kaaki
- Signed
- front and back
- Certificate
- included, in my own name
€950
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Painted in Boekel ▪ insured worldwide ▪ unmarked box
All three at once
Nothing in her face asks for anything.
She is looking away, eyes almost closed. Subtle, elegant, and completely undefended. All of the innocence is in that look.
Then there is the gown, which is open, and a body it is not covering, and a posture that knows considerably more than the face lets on.
Weeks in front of that and it never once held still. Innocence turns into seduction, seduction turns into wanting. I have never worked out how one image does all three at the same time. It is still doing it, and now it is doing it at you instead of at me.
What do you do with it?
Inspired by a photograph of Pandora Kaaki. 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.
In a room
An impression of Pandora (Dreaming in Blue) in a room. The room is imagined; the canvas is the real work. It is not a measurement: the size is in the details above.
