Residue by Rachel Andrews

I like this one muchly.

It's a demanding drawing. It is difficult with the viewer, which I appreciate.

And I find it very erotic. I see a male nude in here, a reclining male, truncated.

But it's an androgynous figure.

And it's landscape read as a human form, a subgenre of landscape which only a small subset of artists can do convincingly.

Georgia O'Keefe was one of those. Here's another.

Baudelaire did that in poetry. Remember that poem?

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge works with this theme sometimes in her poetry. The poem "Tan Tien" would be one example, but she has many along those lines.

And Berssenbrugge worked as an assistant to Georgia O'Keefe when she was young.

Coincidence? I doubt it.

Friendship.

And they were both walking in that huge landscape where the human is not present.

How can that not enter you?




Rachel writes:

Oddballs is an original painting done with acrylics and pastels on canvas. It has an original poem written around the forms:

You do have all the answers my sweetie. You're lovely, divine. Be the oddball and you'll be yourself. You'll spread yourself, blanket your world, comfort us all.

The canvas is studio grade with no staples on the sides (sides are painted green). It is titled, dated and signed on the back, initlaled on the front. The sides are almost an inch deep. The painting measures 16 x 20. The front has been sprayed with fixatif to prevent the pastels from smudging. :)

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