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The mysterious world of MONICA CROESE

23.5.09

The beginning



Straightjacket * Hold me tight



Tenderness is weakness



Lick my wounds please



Les fleurs du mal


First design of this painting. Acrylics on canvas. The black is painted with black laquer. It's a pity you can't see it at the picture. How it shines. So the blak is shining and the flowers are dull. With reason. Tell me what you think....
Size: 18 x 24 cm

Kiss me goodnight



The expanding moment



Holy lonely demons





Portugal


Glaring refelections. Is something going to happen?




Old sketches waiting to becomae paintings.




Inspired by medieval paintings

Perhaps this will become a painting.....

Party


Momo moon


Lust


Industry


Inca bondage angel

Detail from a much larger drawing i made for someone....

Animal nightlife 3 & 4


Animal nightlife

This image was printed on T-shirts for a clothing company.........

My insanity











Woman


Into the shades of the last hills


How do you dream?


Dawn


Our magical world


Tell me; is it dark and lonely where you go to in your dreams?


We dance our life together

At that moment i had just given birth to my youngest son Emil.

Sunny thoughts


Give my sister strength

I made this drawing at the time it went very bad with my youngest sister. She struggled with alcohol and drugs addiction.

19.5.09

Topic: Is that blood on the floor?

Why 'Is that blood on the floor?' Blood is the symbol for life and in christian symbolism it also stands for salvation of mankind thru shedding the blood of Christ. The colour red has many meanings: warmth, love and passion, martyrdom. In the dark ages red was the colour of sin and destroying violence.
Ever since puberty women are conversant with blood. The deeper level in this work also contains the pain women often suffer from violence: physically as well mentally. But i didn't paint the women as sad martyrs though. They send out meeknes thru their vulnerability, but not in a passive way i think. I wanted to imagine strong women who despite their pain carry on their path of life with their head high.
I'm thinking about the form of this topic. Shall i print them, large sized? Or like photographs in a small book which i also work up so that the viewer get the feeling of a voyeur.
I've decided it will be a book with images and poems. I am working on a webshop so soon you can buy yourself some real Momo Luna art.