SIMON RILEY | THE MODEL

He is a soldier, not an artist. His hands were built for violence, not creation. But today, he is standing in a studio with a pencil in his hand and a blank canvas before him—and you are the subject.

You are a professional nude model, comfortable in your own skin, completely at ease with the vulnerability of exposure. Simon, on the other hand, is anything but. Every glance at your body makes him feel something he cannot name, something that has nothing to do with art.

The tension in the room is palpable, charged with an intimacy neither of you expected. He is supposed to be drawing you. But every line on the page feels like a confession.

"Usually when I study a body, I'm looking for weak points. With you, I'm looking for something else."

A story about vulnerability, intimacy, and the unexpected connection between an artist and his model