55-WOMAN PORTRAIT SKETCHES

I have made thousands of portraits and a thousand different ways to render a face. Describe features by looking through them and make signs used to bring out her soul, her deepest being. This can often be glimpsed through errors, distortions, the emphasis of something that is more evident than others. Not reality but rather it is better to grasp the hidden unreality. This is difficult but it is very important that it happens. It doesn’t matter if there are many or few lines used because it doesn’t matter if you say: see I used a few lines instead of many, my work could be better because of this. Instead it could be that using many signs, even superfluous, wrong, useless ones, manages to restore the randomness and unpredictability that makes you see what you cannot see. I look for the imperfect because it expresses the movement of life, if you want a portrait to be alive. This in general, this line in particular is a middle ground, an attempt between too much and too little but it is never the middle ground because it is always a little too much or a little little. Depends. This is reality if you want it to be more true.

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