This metamorphosis gives the lady an aura of extraordinary power, making this one of Blase's most acclaimed works, where the détournement transcends the original work to project it into a dimension that is both provocative and seductive.

Soleil Vert reveals itself as a testimony to the year 2020, a year marked by the global Covid-19 pandemic. This oil painting, a reinterpretation of a 19th-century work, features a portrait of an old lady

In the man's left hand is a small red whip, an unexpected element that clashes with the conventions of the time and suggests a 'kinky' character, evoking unusual and deviant practices in the field of sexuality. But the subversion doesn’t stop there.

This radical emancipation of the authority figure can be deftly juxtaposed with Blase's personal experience, which throughout his life has strived to free himself from the constraints of "what will people say", as well as artistic conventions and norms

Orson Welles is the fruit of seven years of artistic labour. Blase's desire to depict crop circles, these enigmatic patterns, has been with him for a long time. In 2022, Blase turns this imposing eighteenth-century work on its head. It is also one of the artist's rare hijackings of a landscape.