...a deathly serenade...

'portrait of Leila Dois as a Nun'
oil & oil pastels on canvas
50 x 50 cm
...exile into flux, escapism into tectonic plates
of Religion..? here Yashu decided to playfully
depict Leila, his friend that had at this time
become a Nun, as a rather searching soul, one
breast careening out of the darkness, eyes
towards what exactly..? a veil covering a face
distinctly still enraptured but so different to his
only other portrait of Leila, the primal scream
comes across more charming here perhaps, a
little lost in a way, as if fluency in a world, but
at the same time an attraction to the nature of
sex, bodies, laughter at poetic occurrences seen
on streets...
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