For the first painting on a large canvas, I painted the Venus de Milo in the centre from the top to the bottom. The thin model leans slightly into the Venus de Milo, which seemed to be physically and emotionally aligned with the model. The other model was an obese young woman, who is on the left and separate from the statue. I prefer voluptuous models because I would make a good Rubens model myself. I stared at the discrepancy between the two models, one society’s darling, platinum and glamorous and big busted, and the other model, as if put to the side, because although she was also big busted, she was fat, and society does not like fat people. And I thought of the VANITY of social mores, of the nursery rhyme from Snow White, “Who’s the fairest?”, and I wrote that down and at the bottom I said “ALL”, because I think all forms of life are beautiful. I painted circles from the spotlights, almost like swirling flames, and inside I wrote vanity vanity. All is vanity. And that was my second painting of the series.