Unfinished Soul | Oil Painting

I started painting this in 2015. Abandoned months later. Continued painting again in 2016 but left unfinished.

I guess because I am an unfinished soul, and I will be forever a work in progress.

'Unfinished Soul' was the earlier version of this painting:

I wasn't that confident to show my art (which contains my naked body - I was 18!) back then, so decided to create that second piece with clothes on :P

Back to the 'Unfinished Soul', that painting is much more personal to me than the other painting. First of all, the piece is inspired by Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss'. When I was around 8 years old, we always visited the doctor because of my disease back then. They had a hard time figuring out what kind of disease landed on me that's why the cyst on my neck won't go away.

At the doctor's clinic, there was this print of 'The Kiss' hanging on the wall. As a kid who knew nothing about art, I always wondered what that painting means. I thought the piece was lovely, of course. So every time I see Klimt's painting, I always remembered that moment of going back to the doctor to help me find the cure for the curse... and that moment I knew that painting became my symbol of healing.

Being naked in the painting symbolizes my vulnerability and how fragile I am. My subconscious mind knows that I got a trauma because of that disease and that I was touched in some areas of my body, so since then, I felt naked all the time.

I don't know the reason why I didn't finish this painting, probably because I was remembering those moments, making me frustrated while doing the painting.

I don't have any plans on finishing it and that is the reason you don't see my signature on it (only the hiddenblade watermark). The abandonment became a significant part of the painting itself. And I guess that makes me different from other artists.