Nude 4 Left Alone
A Note From The Artist
Left Alone by Archie Shepp (1978) is one of the most beautiful pieces of instrumental music I know. A saxophone, accompanied by a piano, plays notes that resonate with my heart. In my mind, this photograph moves with an impossible slowness to an undefinable silence between notes in jazz riff. The duality in this Aria, Left Alone, is nihilism and conflagration. I posed the model and the fabric in the Japanese character for fire. She models the pose of power in the fluidity of dance. A flame, alone is a powerful and fragile life force that is on the brink of greatness, and the precipice of darkness; life extinguished. The red is her power extending from heart center and the white is the searing flame.
The abstractions or flaws, placed along a Fibonacci sequence spiraling from the model’s mind, represent the difference between self perceptions and the way others perceive her. We all hyper-focus on our flaws and feel they ruin the whole when, of course, they do nothing of the sort. I also continue the motif of the wings in Left Alone because I have always believed in this woman and that she would ascend.
Nude 1 is available in three sizes:
36” Edition of 15
48" Edition of 15
72" Edition of 15
Commissions Available
Below are examples of a 48" piece framed. My personal recommendation is the Larson Juhl 227526 with the Clover matting.
Of course, you can order the piece alone and frame it to your own tastes. I only offer these as suggestions to help you visualize the work.
Collecting art with ArtMoney - 10 payments. No Interest. No Fees.