Nudes

NudesThis was a series of 50 miniatures, very intimate, very ‘closed.’ The inspiration was the  Victorian period in terms of lighting, coloration, posing. There is reference to the earliest daguerrotypes of the 1870’s.

Many pleasures were officially forbidden during this epoch, and for this reason I find the subject of the nude at this time all the more compelling. The overdressed and corseted women of the 1890’s with their high-necked embroidered blouses contrast with  ‘les demi-mondaines, les actrices et les autres.’  The painted inserts became little saucy postcards, or perhaps reference the peep-hole into a very private club.