without title

A encounter, and a resulting image. no one important, just one of many meetings in life, one face, that is interesting.

I think, we built the wrong idols, and make them big on screen, surrounding our lifes with them in television, magazines, and billboards. I never met the Beckhams, Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum or Johnny Depp. But I met this person on the Street near Camberwell Green, had a chat, and loved his face (and the voice as well). So I decided to make a homage of this meeting, as it is one of the many, that make life interesting.

Formally I tried to get the backround and the face together, to make it one layer. It did not really meet my expectations, and I think seperating backround and foreground fits more with me. I wanted to support the fact, that he did not have an easy life with a quite expressive, painterly appliance of the paint, scrached in his face, nearly punched it (which was not easy, as I really liked him). I think the next face I paint, will be less expressive, and foregroung and backround should be more seperated again.