Be in the Love

This is the first part of a tryptic.

I have always drawn people, but only recently have I questionned who I draw.
I'd started thinking about the Guerrila girls statement, --do women have to be naked to get into museums-- and went of to want to draw male people but found it quite difficult and keep coming back to women.
Yesterday, I found this website called Women Painting Women. And it's so great, I'm finding new arguments. A man painting a naked women's body is not the same as a women doing it.

It's important to wonder why we need naked bodies and are they always necessary, in my new found love for Art Nouveau, and Mucha, I see that he used naked women for advertising, most of his work was promotion from anything from train trips down to Monaco to Washing Up Powder. This I find wrong, so I find it wrong too if I'm just puting a scarcely clothed woman in my painting for aestheics only.
But I'm not, by chosing who I paint, and adding variety, moving away from the able, white, beauty-norm conforming bodies and using them to promote other ideas such as healthy love and peace as I know I will in my next work, I'm not ashamed of gaining inspiration from a tad muddy background.

I love the complexity of the world and of intersectionnal feminism. I love that who you are gives complete different meanings to what you do and what is acceptable for you. I know I'm far from being clear about what is ok for me to and am surely making many mistakes allong the way.