an image of the french photographer Charles Fréger inspired me to paint this portrait of a girl.
I took the title "innocence" for this painting, a little thin slim girl who wanted to go swimming, but the water seems to be a dark dirty mud bath, such as the way some animals, especially birds, can no longer follow their instincts and do what their nature tell them to be, because we made a mess of their environment and turned it into an oilbath, that turned into their deathbed... and they died an innocence death...
this painting, the original, is sold in october 2011 at the exhibition "hanging out in history" in Galerie Pinsart in Bruges, Belgium.