I picked Sevgi this morning.
… and today wasn’t easy – not at all. Starting to work on the portrait, I felt overwhelmed by some energies, a huge sadness and pain and later anger. This dark red background moved in with an immense power. Later, with the white butterfly some more peace came in, but as hard as I tried, I could not manage to paint the flowers on Sevgi’s face – after the lotus flowers started to blossom, a smile was possible.
We are in a Turkish village right now, when we left the house, after I had finished the painting, we noticed, where the animals are slaughtered today for Kurban Bayrami was just around the corner…
Jumping to the Aegean Sea was like a healing bath!
Thank you, Sevgi – thank you especially for carrying this with me today!
<3 Susanne