I am bringing back this portrait from July 2021.
I truly believe that one can be born again and again as an artistic being, and for this one has to die as many times first. Alice set up my own reinvention and the discovery of my next steps.
I was born as an artist with Alice, I may say. I can now understand how with every line of the portrait I was also developing the cornerstone of my own maturity.
Life can strike in the most unexpected ways, and this year I learned that this was going to be carved in my own bones. But being transparent is always a way to express: I truly believe in the honesty of art to portrait the artistic expression as a real human necessity.
The soft expression of Alice, flourishing an entire universe almost without any effort, made me realise how much I wanted to capture that moment in a portrait. How much I wanted to feel of her own expression, to articulate it myself as an intimate revelation.
