The cell

In july 2013

I start "the claustra of monkeys"

THE MONKEYS, THE CELL, THE KEY.
june 2013 – august 2013

In June 2013

I dream of a wall whose bricks are gorillas that support the ceiling, and the biggest problem in this dream is to prevent the ceiling from collapsing because the wall is alive and the monkeys necessarily need to come and go for their occupations.
Lobotomy is the solution found in the dream to prevent monkeys from moving.

It seems to me that the key was not in the dream; the window came much later; as for the door, I forgot. 

 July 2013

By duplicating and reversing the image with Photoshop, I find that the gorilla square placed to the right of the page calls a window on the left.
I therefore decide to paint two paintings: one with the claustra on the left and a candle on the right and another with the claustra on the right and a window on the left.
And for now, always the door closed in the back. I juxtapose the two images obtained.

July 22, 2013

I dream « The hole » which triggers the writing of the little book « the key ».
I test my new acquisitions: flemish lead-free medium and liquid flemish siccative medium.

1st background: cobalt blue, ivory black, zinc white + titanium, turpentine essence,
2nd background: crimson alizane + medium flamand,
shadows in the background: brown Van Dick + medium siccative,
monkeys’s shadows: burnt sienna + flemish medium.

Unfortunate mix if any, I get awful shines.

 11/08/2013

Today, I think that I am the character in the centre, on the window side, embedded in a cell.

12/08/2013

« The cell » has several levels and several meanings depending on whether the painting is addressed to myself, to my small circle, to a larger circle and so on.
cellule5                 cellule6

14/08/2013

I set up the whites, I spend a lot of time there and I tell myself that it takes patience to make true with the unbelievable.

23/08/2013

I draw a circle on photoshop to underline the shape of the darkest place in the room.
The center of the circle corresponds to the navel of a character.
I fill this circle with turquoise blue to simulate a police projector as in the beginning of my short film: « the postman goes to 103 ».

07/10/2013

I go back on « viaduct »
I assume the title « Santa Claus. »

25/10/2013

On the floor, I will not make a wrench but a key as in « the cell » (the claustra of monkeys).

08/11/2013

I associate Magritte and Satie and my father, who becomes the orange man of the « the arm of the mother ».
Summary of titles: viaduct, heritage, asymptote, Santa Claus, my father.I do not finish this painting.

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