In quiet awe: La cama Inglesa

What the fuck would you in this situation?

Protection disguised as danger or perhaps danger disguised as protection.

Is the girl frozen with fear or relaxed in her trust? At ease in the leopards presence? Is the animal her protector, her pet or something more sinister? Both seem to be looking towards the same thing as though something has caught their attention.
Why the bedroom? Why is the leopard staring in to my soul? Kind of…
Who the hell are we? And what did we walk in on? Why are they looking towards the same direction? What are they looking at? Or who.

This scene is quite unsettling. Or maybe that’s what I think because of the thought of being in the same room with a leopard just seems unrealistic to me. The girl seems unnervingly calm while the leopards size and proximity make its presence impossible to ignore. With all of this in mind, I wonder who’s truly in control. The leopard or the girl. What is the relationship between them?

Lorca leaves me with a number of questions and very few answers. This painting seems to exist somewhere between innocence and corruption, intimacy and trust with vulnerability and threat. These possibilities aren’t mutually exclusive, which is quite disturbing to think about. Protection and danger can exist in the same space with the difference between them not always being immediately visible.

The potential danger and power.
But also… Where the hell are the leopards paws?

The image used is from Guillermo Lorca’s website.
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Other artworks that I’ve written about: Lover of art
Hellelil and Hildebrand
Carl Vilhelm Holsøe
In a roman osteria
The birth of Venus
Edward Hopper