Gion ll TG Portrait Painted across the surface of

Painted across the surface of the tipi are delicate horse figures

wearing a crownlike papal tiara

Only when you get closer do you see the ugly truth

Gilleon approached this painting not with the muted tones of historical distance

Set against an expansive western sky

Gion ll TG Portrait Painted across the surface ofThis is my favorite kind of paintings, where many completely different, and even opposing interpretations, can make total sense, simultaneously. Conventional wisdom and morals take the back seat here. There's something about this child woman that is genuinely both attractive and terrifying, definitely unsettling. Somehow she invites us, she lures us into a private journey within our own obscure world of unspoken dreams and desires.