Left: Portrait of An Oriental Woman, 2007, charcoal on paper, approx. 40 x 30 cm.
I made this portrait in a studio I used to have in Ixelles, at a time of considerable mental turmoil, when I tended to place my affections on the wrong people and idealise things generally. It is not a particularly good likeness of the lady in question, mainly because the head is slightly too long. I realised this one day when I happened to look down at the drawing from an angle, so that the image was foreshortened and, as it were, compressed vertically. With the resulting smaller, squatter head, the likeness is much closer, as apparent from the photo below, where I have manipulated the image to achieve this effect.
Right: Vertical compression results in a closer likeness.
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