balthus, your image , an image you painted, hangs in my bathroom, my bathroom, of my minimal, NY room, being the room, of desire, of gender, the room where makeup places onto my face and the mirror returns my gaze.
Balthus; an open sexuality, forefront, earthy, yet very deep and dark, balthus, who wanted the paintings to speak, to be, in their image a power.
The fire rages, the youth reclines. full, deep in a desire, which will become life, a desire which inside of itself, inside of the breath of a moment, finds the fullness