DESIRE+ PASSION+ DESPERATION+ OBSESSION
Desire: Wish or longing for; crave. (2) sensual feeling
Passion: Intense emotion:anger, rage, ardent love; zeal, enthusiasm.
Desperation: Driven by despair; frantic, reckless (2) extremely dangerous.
Obsession: Excessive preoccupation with an idea or delusion.
This painting represents those feelings of desire that, if left unfulfilled begins to brew within. To seek and not find, creates a sense of inward and intrusive desperation. Eventually, the passion percolatesin suspense. Thus, obsession is concocted...
Here, the object d'affection is met and recieved, poured and consumed. When one is caught in the throws of passion, the head responds up and back. In this depiction, the woman's head comes completely detached! The yellow color is the release and course of highly intoxicationg and chemically addictive passion energy. It traveled up from the pit of where emotions are stored, and seeps out of the open neck, across her chest, spread through and up her arms and into his brain. The obsessive power creates in them a temporary monster as they claw their way through and back to the state of lucidity...