Adding details (in between admittedly long breaks) for this particular piece. At one point, I shied away from painting nudity but if art is to be ''stripped down'', as I mentioned in a previous video, then there should be no shyness in capturing the human form, without societal embellishment or assumption. Nudity within art is often a kind of taboo. I have had multiple pieces of my art that feature nudity taken down from various platforms, strictly because of the nudity. Often it's seen explicitly as being related in some way to s-x. I suppose everyone has their preference but I personally feel that not everything has to be a nod to that, as it relates to depictions within paintings. The artist's intention lays the foundation and there is a huge difference between perversion and sensitivity. So, despite not being able to control how viewers interpret my art (I wouldn't want to) I would hope that people can, at minimum, be mature about viewing nudity shown within my paintings, as (in this case) it is a testament to emotional vulnerability and femininity, not interlocked in eroticism.

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