Dreaming in BluePandora

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.

Buying it is the easy part

The photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.

Ordering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.

About this work

Original oil on canvas. One of a kind.

• Size — 100 × 80 cm (height × width)
• Edition — one of one, signed. Not a print and not an edition.
• Series — Painted Idols, oil portraits of women who are looked at for three seconds at a time
• Studio — Boekel, the Netherlands
• Shipping — insured from the Netherlands, certificate of authenticity included