Acrylic, pencil over watercolor. Preparatory work. De profundis clamavi - tribute to Baudelaire. Inspired by a classical drawing by Jusepe de Ribera, the Martyrdom of San Sebastian, the work of Joan Mitchell and the poem e Beaudelaire De profundis clamavi. Baudelaire's poem "I cried from the depths" is that of a psalm of hope from the Bible. The poet made it a song of despair in resonance with my favourite theme (!) The Fall of Man. I reused a painting whose title was Gaia. The filigree above the figure implores the circle symbolizing the earth and perfection, unreachable ... " I implore your pity, You, the only one I love, From the depths of the dark abyss where my heart has fallen. It is a dreary world with a dark horizon, Where horror and blasphemy swim in the night; A sun without heat hovers above six months, And the other six months the night covers the earth; It is a land more bare than the polar land - No beasts, no streams, no greenery, no woods! Now there is no horror in the world that surpasses the cold cruelty of this icy sun And this immense night like old Chaos; I envy the fate of the vilest animals Who can plunge themselves into a stupid sleep, So slowly the skein of time is unravelling! »
