Black Red

The pleasure of having produced something good.

Portraits are the best way to express intimate experiences of emotion and depth between two because we are in a way  related to the sitter, and hand in hand with him/her.

When painting someone else's portrait, the whole you goes into the whole him/her, capturing  narratives that  reflect  what might be happening in your life at this moment and his /her whereabouts, and inner and outer identities.

With this portrait I am not only challenging the concept of both identities, but also I want to identify  the role of a criminal mastermind, that James Spader plays in his character Raymond Reddington in "Blacklist", a Netflix series.

I´ve been fighting to produce a raw reflection of his hidden mysterious mind  within a face of a cynical impostor, who is  concerned only with  his  own interests.

Disregarding accepted standard rules, distressful of human sincerity or  even any glimpse of integrity,  believe or not, he makes himself respected.

I´ve been brutally cynical and tête à tête with him and my adrenaline, I created this portrait, finally convinced  by him that people are motivated purely by self-interest. Even myself.