The Girl from Nagasaki (Liberation)

Part of the Genesis drop by renowned artist, Michel Comte, the "Japan Series" consists of 14 unique works, which are a continuation to his cinematic film "The Girl from Nagasaki”, a melodramatic tale of love and despair, as a re-adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. In The Girl form Nagasaki (Liberation), 2010), depicts an underwater-scene: Cho-Cho San’s arms (the protagonist) are spread, her black kimono sleeves are floating like wings, and her white chest shimmers underneath a black bondage. The blue water around her is agitated as if by a spasm. Pinkerton rests below her, wearing his space- suit. Shot in the swimming pool of the infamous John Lautner house in Los Angeles, this scene appears at the end of the movie, after Cho-Cho San has committed suicide. She now re-lives her own life as if in a dream, finally liberated from her suffering, she floats in absolution.