Alexa And The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Some ideas have a way of sticking with us like that catchy tune you can't shake off. Flash back to 2003: I was gearing up for a solo painting exhibition at the charming Alberto Celeste art gallery in San Gimignano when I stumbled up, Peng an artists etching in a catalog. It depicted three graceful women swirling around an invisible black hole as if they were defying gravity.-maybe even swimming through water! I couldn't resist; I quickly sketch them in my present. Fast-forward to 2000, I enlisted my niece, Alexa, to channel those very poses I'd captured on paper. We spent hours capturing her in 100 different, with me perched a top a tall la, while she flaunted her favorite new outfits down. Those images sat quietly on my hard drive until just a couple of, when I finally felt ready to bring them to life. After four transformative years at Studio, I became equipped to paint the human figure with the passionate truly. And, the idea for." the unbearable lightness of being." was born.-a painting that's part of a trip teach, crafted with all my tender loving care.