Feet n.2

In this drawing of mine, I have interpreted the lines of a model's foot,
these lines so sinuous and so soft, as a visual metaphor of
the Secret of the beauty of the female body.
As in literature, the synecdoche, an extraordinary rhetorical figure, provides for the transfer of meaning from one word to another, relating a part to the whole, in the same way in this drawing the beauty of the lines of the female foot becomes a graphic metaphor of female beauty “tout-court”.
The clear parts of the drawing stand on the background which appears almost flat as in a sacred representation, in an icon completely profane.
I tried to capture a moment of the model's pose and, in general, a moment of ideal femininity.
I imagined my model could be a tired woman, maybe after a long walk or a trip.
She already had a brief meeting, maybe, but that had left her a little pensive, a little dumbfounded and then, by leaning somewhere in a moment of relaxation, she rests her left shoulder.
She turns right
she looks around for a moment and
breathes deeply
the air enters the nostrils
her makeup is a little heavy but perfect
time marks the passage
from time dictated by the clock to the one dictated by our thoughts
as the Ancient Greeks would say from the “Kronos” to the “Aion”
she slightly raises her right leg
she delicately slips her toes by caressing inside her shoe
she stops her run on her own shoe that looks like a ramp, a sort of bridge
at the end of the shoe itself
the foot rises and forms a perfect arch on the right side of the image

all these things I tried to translate into a drawing

let me know what you think about it! (“Feet n.2”, graphite and marker pen on panel, 2016, Giuseppe Alletto)