The advent of the first bird-woman

(First encounter with the bird-woman or "Be or not".)

(1973) - I've really understood the meaning only this winter, when I regrouped my self. It was really a girl smashing the canvas, a girl six feet tall who was pounding over cities, packs of cigarettes, men, stories of love, it was even marked at the bottom: "Be or not failure 3 - 0, one more moment." Those words came to me spontaneously, I did not even know what they meant at the time, but I revised theme this winter, it gave me a shock to realise that Art precedes consciousness. That's really true.

Materials: Acrylic, gouache, ink, collage, glass powder, residual debris, varnish on canvas.

Size: 91 cm. X 183 cm.