Eyes wide shut. In this series, I deprive my friends, acquaintances and fellow human beings of everything they have ever had. I present the models without desires or emotions, they cease to exist as friends as humans. I am stripping my palette, abandoning everything that makes me a painter and them a human being. I treat them as objectified data, I exploit them, but somewhere in the distance, behind the glassy gaze, there is still something that tells me: you know me, it’s me.