Reflecting Nude
oil and acrylic on canvas

I have often seen paintings entitled "reclining nude". This painting is based on a reclining nude. However, reclining nude has been done to death. How about reflecting nude? And turning the reclining position 90 degrees and facing one another on opposite sides of the canvas, with strange shapes and colors weaving throughout the image? Why not? The central shape is vaguely vaginal and unintentional, at least on a conscious level. My breaking down and redesigning of the female form into various shapes and colors was entirely intentional, as well as difficult to reproduce on opposite reflected sides considering it was done entirely by eye. I love intense color and melting shapes in and out of one another.