I explored the idea of duality in this bodypainting. Cold versus warm. Life versus death.
I thought about a porcelain doll which is lifeless and I wondered how would it be to show that there could be something alive inside of her by painting a vivid forest around my chest.
By using mostly cold colours I wanted to display the cold demeanour of the doll. At the end of my creative endeavour I realized that the doll looked more alive than ever as I included bold pinks and yellows around my face.
I always tend to see things outside of the box and ponder about everything. Like a little detective I enjoy getting to the bottom of things and figure why things work as they work. Sometimes the process of trying to figure the source of everything can be exhausting. Sometimes it can feel rejuvenating.
I realize that in different moments of our life we can act like a porcelain doll: cold, showing no emotion, letting everything pass by and keeping our reaction under control. But under all of that demeanour there will always be some sort of emotion. Unless you are a psychopath, you will feel emotions and life will touch you eventually and this will make you do things differently.
It is this very contradiction - to see things as they are yet to see beyond them - which makes life a magnificent journey.