Faun and Nymphidia is the story of an emerging excitement about the potential for erotic art, and the exploration of the relationship between a courageous artist and her muse. Here is how Anca describes the importance of the relationship:
The male character in my illustrations is the pretext for much of my work. We first contacted each other online in 2016 and met in 2018. We’re now good friends. He’s also an artist, but unfortunately that’s all we can be. He (who we call Faun) urged me into the genre since he was doodling erotica already, but without anyone else to enjoy it and share it with.
The drive to create comes simply from the fact that I miss his presence, from banal everyday activities – to everything else you’re seeing in my art. It’s art done from necessity of taming the heart-breaking state of longing and missing. My art, and the main characters in it, is a set of imagined moments, glimpses, encounters, memories and wishes – the free and passionate world of Faun and Nymphidia.
This deeply felt impulse to create erotic art comes in very handy when one misses someone dearly. My erotic art may have started in jest, but until I truly experienced my erotic self it always felt unsatisfactory and false. It is through my art that I feel truly myself.
Though it has a common theme of sexual encounter, Anca Georgescu skilfully employs a variety of artistic techniques in her work, including printmaking and even stained glass. She is also an accomplished sculptor.