100x70 cm, 2008.This painting is made for the poetry festival at World Art Delft. It is inspired on a poem of Jan Wolkers (1925-2007 NL) who at the same time was inspired by The birth of Venus by Boticelli.
The young Sea Princess, is looking at the sea, with its wind playing with her hair. Based on Kiki Doeve.
The sea foams
The sea foams
Like a cloak
Of glistening hair.
A lovely shape,
Unembraceable,
A pearl leaving its shell,
A fantasy
Rising bare-footed
From the enamel sea
Like rippling snow.
We chew every scrap
Of the sunlight
Until the west wind
Wipes out the vision
In a flood of pale roses.
Jan Wolkers
