About works:

The illustrations from the “Spleen II” cycle, digital painting, 2012-2014. The inspiration for the creation of these works was “The Voice” poem by Charles Baudelaire from “The Flowers of Evil” from 1857. The illustration technique is photomontage - in the works you can see me with a painting palette in my hand, so all the other hands are my hands and digital painting (Adobe Photoshop CS4).

The Voice

(...) Behind the scenes
Of life's vastness, in the abyss' darkest corner
I see distinctly bizarre worlds,
And ecstatic victim of my own clairvoyance,
I drag along with me, serpents that bite my shoes.
(…)

/Translated by William Aggeler, “The Flowers of Evil”, Academy Library Guild, Fresno CA 1954./

In 2016, the “Remerciements – Les Illustrateurs de Baudelaire” online book and e-book by Professor Ivan Bernier from Université Laval in Quebec City was published. In this book, the author analyzes the work of the best contemporary illustrators of Charles Baudelaire's poetry. My illustrations inspired by Baudelaire's poetry, are presented in the book.

More: “Spleen I”