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When I painted this I was thinking about that famous painting by Rene Magritte of the woman's face morphed into a nude female torso; The Rape - and what has been said about it. How it represents a kind of deconstruction - and even destruction - of the image of women in the mind of a man. The fact that the composition is essentially the same is not just a coincidence. I simply wanted to make a painting of a leaf with a face - but as I painted I began to realize that the face had to be not just a face - it had to be an expression of the leaf's inner life, but in human form. What is the leaf thinking? "Who" is the leaf? I decided to allow the leaf to tell me. Where is the leaf? Is it the only one of its kind? These are questions that can't really be answered - but need to be asked. Suffice it to say the painting is an examination of our relationship with what we call "nature" as though it is something apart from us. To me, the leaf is seeing for the first time, with new eyes. But what the leaf sees is undetermined.
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