Two forms of art have fascinated me since time immemorial, thats tattoes and paintings, nude paintings to be exact. For the tattoo, its the image of kokopelli (god of fertility) placed on my right ankle with my name below it or on my nape. This I think will never materialize because my mom has strictly told me no, being an only child and an obedient one (charot!) I’ll let that continue to be a fascination.

Nude paintings on the other hand is a different story, lately I’ve taken nude images of myself, printed them and examined them from the outside, see if they’d look good on charcoal, or on oil or on metallics. Strange?! maybe, I might come across as strange but theres nothing more fascinating and sensual for me than the female body, call it narcissistic but I appreciate the female body. And theres nothing I want more than have mine captured in charcoal, oil or metallics.

Some inspiration for poses I got from these artists. From Antoine de Villiers, there are 3 that caught my fascination, done in oil.

For the metallics, I got these from Flesh and Color

This pose was my first choice, it projects a kind of lonely sensuality which draws an onlooker in.

This one I wanna do with my partner in crime, A.

And this one caught my eye too, it appears to me as an image of a woman powerful enough to defy anything.

It appeared to me as strange that my mom would allow a nude painting but not a tattoo when they’re both art in the purest sense of the word. One of the many things I was asked when I mentioned this to a couple of people was, aren’t you ashamed?

There’s nothing to be ashamed of with once body, its definitely the most sensual way of expressing once unique identity and though my body’s not perfect but its just a casing to the soul, w/c would wither in time … and now that its still at its youth I wanna have it captured and locked against time.

Lets say a remembrance of youth and vitality.