Lilith Marie’s Mandala

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hardboard

The final paint­ing of Lilith Marie’s Man­dala. A break­through piece for me, it’s my first fin­ished paint­ing after a long hia­tus and los­ing my muse. It’s been very cathar­tic for me, not only for heal­ing my heart but for solid­i­fy­ing my ideas about the Objec­tify series.
I had some­one ask me why I call it Objec­tify and I wasn’t able to put it into words. Look­ing at some­one and paint­ing them, for me, takes an abil­ity to dehu­man­ize them, to turn them into pure form and run that through the fil­ter of my eyes, my brain, turn­ing them into an object, the same as a chair or a vase.

There’s also a his­tory of paint­ing the female nude as an object or piece of prop­erty, see the doc­u­men­tary Ways of See­ing from the BBC for a bet­ter expla­na­tion than I can give you here.

Mak­ing these mono­prints is just the oppo­site for me. I’m not inter­pret­ing my model, they actu­ally make the mark and I inter­pret those marks. It’s more direct and a true collaboration.

Thank you, Lilith Marie.

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