verde parís 2008
Verde París: Serial Passionate Death
Named after the common name of acetate – copper arsenide, a chemical compound of arsenic that has a bluish-green color and is extremely toxic. Since the Middle Ages, this was a popular venom among killers and suicides for it’s nonexistent odor or flavor which permitted to be successfully masked in food and beverages. After consuming the effect would only take a few hours to cause death.
In this series of portraits, the lover commits suicide, but it is precisely the object of affection the instrument and the cause of surrender. Although contrary to what most may think this retirement from life does not suspend the act of love, it is a promise to embrace the ever-lasting feeling once lived. Verde París is the metaphor to sketch out the primal constitution of Love.
