Temperance

Art is not an integral dimension, but a combination of multiple levels that sometimes interpenetrate.
In this drawing, a more technically artistic level – represented by the pencil portrait – meets my light creative side, expressed through colorful decorative elements. These are two stylistic traits that belong to me, somehow opposite. And when they interpenetrate naturally, without force, it is very fulfilling for me because they satisfy my need for integration, my desire to arrive at a unique style that encompasses so much of me.
Temperance opens the hands; it is in the act of receiving. Those who contemplate the work have the opportunity to imagine, each time, what Temperance is receiving. This work is also a reminder to those who pass through its energy field of how important it is to be open to receiving.
This drawing is part of a series I titled “Playful Fusions.” They are drawings that blossom from a daily practice, including 25 minutes of drawing early in the morning before starting the day. They arise from instinctive gestures, not from defined projects. In these drawings, therefore, lines and strokes can be crooked.
Like others in the same series, this is a drawing made on smooth sketch paper, 120g, and finished with a quality passepartout.