When making portraits, the painter is led to question himself on the very subject of his work. In this "classic" process of pictorial representation, it can be difficult to find a model. Francis Bacon explained that he painted many self-portraits at the end of his life because many of his relatives had left him.
Playing on these codes, I chose to make a self-portrait in which this half-fictional, half-real character fits. I am accompanied by a child who can be seen as a representation of the past or a member of the future. The symbolism of playing cards, the apple and flying animals, both in their history in Art and from a more philosophical point of view, tends to question the public on the emergence of such a scene.
The whole is placed in an open landscape, focused on nature.
Selfportrait in a field, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 140 x 105 cm.