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This painting is inspired by a sacred Morrocan Tattoo - This image was presented to me in a 4th year
University Course entitled "the Sacred and Art" at York University - by a lady who did a wonderful seminar
on Morrocan Tattoo's - The whole torso and pelvis were tattoo-ed in this design - The swirls on the
breasts have symbolic attachment to fertility, lifespan and eternity - I have painted them in actual
gold leaf ... The hand is a sort of protector of that orfus - and I sorta read it as a hunger for entering
a great wide universe... I have added a lot of my own interpretation to this image such as the Van Gogh-esque
sky, crows and sunflowers as I identify with these symbols through my Dutch heritage and just because
I dig these sorta common elements. -
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