The Beauty

Title: The Beauty

Technique: Acrylics and mirros on canvas

Place and date of creation: Toronto, 07/2024

Identification number: 91032474

Dimensions: 36 in x 24 in

Materials: Canvas, acrylics and mirrors

Provenance: private collection of Planet Splatter

DESCRIPTION: 

Not everything is beautiful and perfect. And at the time I received this order, I was going through a period of great emotional need because my life consisted of only work in a country far from mine, lonely and cold. And in these conditions, my heart was seduced and I almost fell for a scam.

I looked for company on dating sites and found a beautiful girl, and for more than a week we talked every day, I believed she was real. We exchanged photos, made video calls, and started planning to invest together to build our probable future.

That same week, I received the order, and the theme was something beautiful, something beautiful, something that everyone would find beautiful. I had nowhere to run but my own life. And in love as I was with my virtual girlfriend, I started painting her based on the photos she sent me.

However, one weekend, when we were going to start investing in bitcoin together, I realized that it was a scam, and I almost clicked on the link she sent me. Then I realized how I was deceived by beauty, and I understood how beauty seduces us. It was then that I decided to place the broken mirrors, symbolizing this seduction made by showing beautiful fragments of the one who is seduced.

This is beauty, both subjective and real.