I had some interesting moments with this one. She kept having an identity crisis. First, I wanted to try a portrait study that had more realism than I'm used too, then that didn't work so I thought of a smoother more graphic 'art nouveau' look, then that didn't quite work out either, so it became this. Slightly more pop arty than I usually do, yet still in the style of most of my paintings. Failed experiment? Not quite, but I think I may have taken the easy way out. She also had a gender identity crisis during a few moments throughout the process, which was interesting. And I mean that in a most genuine way. It got me thinking about gender and androgyny. I think there is still some androgyny to her which creates a sort of haunting, mysterious quality. I want to play more with this theme, after all what is gender anyway? A socially contrived 'normal'? Once you really start to ask your self those questions, you open up to an entirely different realm of thought.
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