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It ends here, what harm does someone leaving do – Living without you – Last step

It ends here, what harm does someone leaving do – Living without you – Last step

by Sylvie Renault | 10 Apr 2012 | Painting, Step by Step

Every painting has its own story. And lately I've enjoyed telling it. Living without you is about separation and the rebirth that follows. The natural separation of life, like that between a mother and a daughter, which happens first through growing up and then through death. Equal factors in the same equation. Is it the mother who gives birth to the daughter from her remains, or the daughter who gives birth to herself from the mother who is leaving her? Death or childbirth? End or beginning? Equal pain. The same rebirth. Last year, three wonderful women close to my heart experienced this natural yet agonizing transformation firsthand. Michela, Chiara and Chiara. And I accompanied them on this journey as much as I could. And it is to them that I want to dedicate this painting. And to their three wonderful mothers. In particular to Annagrazia, who introduced me, when I was just 16, to the song that inspired this painting, "Living without you", by George Winston, alternating with a fantastic Caterina Caselli, with "Insieme a te non ci sto più". I recommend looking at its shimmering brushstrokes while listening to this music.

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It's as if... it's as if...

by Sylvie Renault | 9 Apr 2012 | Painting, Step by Step

...it's as if each of my paintings had a life of its own. And when I've decided to stop, when my planning is done, it were to say "please, why do you want to deprive me of another brushstroke???". I keep painting "Linving without you" thinking "I'll finish it tonight"... and I find myself facing an endless painting... that tells, and wants to tell, the story of everyone's rebirth.

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Secret of May - Soundtrack

by Sylvie Renault | 26 Jan 2012 | Painting Soundtrack, Music, Step by Step, Video

A lie is more wicked Hidden inside a prayer It's just a man I'm talking about About a shower after a betrayal About the smile that returns after he has cried It's just a man I'm writing about The night before a long journey When he doesn't know whether leaving is just leaving or also running away May peace come from the distant sea May silence come from the waves They say it's true, yes, but even if it were true it would be no justification for not doing it anymore, for not doing it anymore, now.

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Rent - Soundtrack

by Sylvie Renault | 31 Mar 2011 | Painting Soundtrack, Music, Step by Step, Video

Five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes, Five hundred twenty-five thousand Moments so dear. Five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do you measure, measure a year? In cups of coffee... Measure measure your life in love. There is no future There is no past Thank God this Moment's no the last There's only us There's only this Forget regret or Life is yours to miss No other road no other way No day but today We could light the candle What'd you do with my candle? Let's Just Make This Part Go Faster I Have Yet - To Be In It I Should Tell You I Should Tell Eden The dance of a perfect world When we finally manage to believe in our promises You were the perfect wave To break against me No! If you want, I will be No! More than a moment No! And then I will stay No! When you wake. When you want to give up but you won't When you learn to stop running away and to shine. I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones i love.. Nothing you would take everything you gave hold me till i die.. meet you on the other side Did i say that i need you? Oh, did i say that i want you? Oh, if i didn't now i'm a fool you see.. no one know this more than me as i come clean And I looked inside an emotion And I saw so much love inside it That I understood why You can't command the heart And that's all right Without words as long as it's easy as long as it's simple enough of getting screwed as long as it's A simple story A cloudless sky A useful love Always searching WHERE IS IT?? Whoa, where is it? All the way over there!! Where is it?...uh! where is it... This happiness!!... A prisoner in an endless jail, that's how I'd feel if you weren't in my heart, I'd hide, like so many, behind a flimsy excuse and let the sellers of pain win. And I have seen things reserved for dreamers, and I have drunk the bitter juice of contempt, and I have performed all my purest acts. Considering that love has no price... Considering that love has no price, I am willing to do anything to have a little,

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