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Acrylic on canvas \u2013 12 x 9,5 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotland holds a very special place in my heart. It’s a country I visited many times as a child, teenager, and young adult. It’s been over thirty years since I’ve been there. I never had the opportunity, and I also admit to being a little afraid of being disappointed, of not seeing again, of not experiencing what, at the time, was so important to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

This painting\nappeared to me suddenly. I let my whole being speak for itself,\nchoosing what it wanted to express. This is the story of a woman and\na man. He struggles, wants to change her mind. He does everything to\nmake her stay a little longer. He promises her the earth. He is\ngentle, kind, like never before. But she is not fooled. She knows him\ninside and out. She knows how he acts to get what he wants. How he\nhas manipulated her for so long. He is simply an expert, I won’t say\nmore, that is not the point of this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s more of a story\nabout freedom, the choice to live, to feel, to desire. She’s at the\nend of her rope, she knows it. She’s bleeding. Her brain can’t take\nit anymore, it refuses. So it runs away, it leaves her before dying\nfor good. Then, in the middle of a distant whirlwind, an enormous\nshape appears, its mouth open. It’s terrifying, and yet she’s not\nafraid, not this time. She’s intrigued. Is it real? Is it an illusion\nshe’s created?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At her knees, is\nthat the ocean? A stream? A pond? She’s completely wrong. Her\nintuition tells her something else. She closes her eyes and suddenly,\nas if by magic, she finds herself plunged into the past. She’s at the\nedge of a lake, with her brother, and he wants to scare her by\nannouncing the arrival of the monster. It’s for real, as soon as a\nseagull flies in the sky, the monster is not far away. And\ninevitably, she raises her head and sees the bird. She starts\nscreaming, crying, stamping her feet. She’s young, it’s such an easy\ngame. How mean this was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, we are\ntoday, and now she is in Scotland, on the shores of Loch Ness, and it\nis the monster who comes to find her, to free her from this\ndestructive grip. She is saved by her memories, the extraordinary\nearthly elements. She is alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acrylic on canvas \u2013 12 x 9,5 inch \u2013 Unique work Scotland holds a very special place in my heart. It’s a country I visited many times as a child, teenager, and young adult. It’s been over thirty years since I’ve been there. I never had the opportunity, and I also admit to being a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}