Original artwork description:

This is a work that didn’t make life easy for me. I had imagined it one way, but as I painted it, it took a different path, almost as if it were guiding me. I had to wrestle with the colour, with the image, with the woman’s expression… and it became a difficult dialogue, made of pauses, second thoughts, and small conflicts.

The figure appears behind a window, her gaze fixed and her hand resting on the glass, as if searching for a contact that never comes. The fragments, the pixels, don’t divide: they crack the surface to let a deeper emotion emerge. It is a painting that speaks of boundaries, but also of inner strength.

And then, almost as if fate had woven it in, right after finishing it I found out I had cancer. It was as if the painting itself wanted to tell me, or as if my unconscious had found a way to warn me.
Since then, Behind the Window has remained just that for me: a silent warning, but also a promise of resilience and of keeping my gaze open to the world.

Materials used:

Oil

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