Pencil on off-white paper
25x35xm approx
Original available
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25x35xm approx
Original available
[Click image for full-size view]
I see beauty in many things regardless of age, race, orientation or gender. There’s so much to admire in androgyny, and I like to use that in my pencil portraits. This one tells about the strength of a cancer patient undergoing treatment.
What the body must go through to be exorcised of the cancer is unimaginable to me; the physical changes, the emotional state, the mental exhaustion. The patience.
She’s a Christ-like figure, with bleeding heart and bearing the stigmata as signs of her suffering, near death and then rising again.