Lexy

Lexy

October 2009

Oil, acrylics and wood on canvas and acrylic plate

60 x 50 cms

When I met Lexy, I had already given up on portraiture.

Excerpt from a personal blog:

Back then, Lexy was a bit of everything. She was a rebel in her combat boots and a girl in the socks inside them. She was Makel's hands. She was Tinkerbell's colors. She was the mix of Lee's scents. She was also the mouths and eyes and mannerisms of many people I had only experienced with my eyesight. Maybe that’s why the two of us felt so good. Because it was a sort of replay of the best moments from the past.

But three years brought her own identity, as she faded the memories of the other girls while gifting me with new ones. After a while, everything became Lexy. Lexy's hands. Lexy's colors. Lexy's mix of scents. Her eyes and mouths and ways that couldn’t be described.

Lexy's portrait was the definitive version of the series initiated in FAAP. I used oils and acrylics, which were both used in different paintings of the series, as well as painting on an acrylic plate, something I had done unsuccessfully in Makel's lost portrait.