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- "The white witnesses"
Original artwork description
"The white witnesses"
70 × 50 cm
Canvas, acrylic and oil
1400€
This painting is part of The Lost Choice, a series that reflects on situations in which choice formally exists, yet in reality feels impossible. The project explores the female experience shaped by pressure, responsibility, and circumstance — moments when decisions are made out of necessity rather than freedom. It speaks about irreversible paths, about the quiet transformation that follows them, and about what is lost along the way.
In this work, a woman in a red dress walks forward with her head slightly lowered. Her posture is calm, yet inwardly withdrawn. The red dress becomes the emotional center of the composition — intense, vulnerable, alive. It contrasts with the muted architectural background of greys, beiges, and deep blues, which feels structured and immovable, like the framework of external reality.
Around her body appear soft white forms resembling lambs. They hover close to her — near her shoulders, her back, her movement. These lamb-like shapes symbolize innocence, purity, and a childlike openness to the world. They evoke the fragile inner state that exists before experience hardens perception.
As the woman moves through the rigid geometry of her surroundings, these symbols of innocence seem suspended between presence and disappearance. The painting reflects a moment when circumstances force an inner shift — when a woman loses not her physical purity, but her naivety, her unquestioning trust, her untouched softness. It is about the quiet ending of a certain inner childhood.
The figure continues walking. There is no visible drama, no collapse. Only movement forward. The work embodies the tension between vulnerability and resilience — between what has been lost and what remains. It speaks about the transformation that occurs when life demands strength, and about the subtle mourning of the innocence that cannot return.
Materials used:
acrylic, oil
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 70 x 1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#red#woman#women#feminism#power#symbolicart
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Original artwork description
"The white witnesses"
70 × 50 cm
Canvas, acrylic and oil
1400€
This painting is part of The Lost Choice, a series that reflects on situations in which choice formally exists, yet in reality feels impossible. The project explores the female experience shaped by pressure, responsibility, and circumstance — moments when decisions are made out of necessity rather than freedom. It speaks about irreversible paths, about the quiet transformation that follows them, and about what is lost along the way.
In this work, a woman in a red dress walks forward with her head slightly lowered. Her posture is calm, yet inwardly withdrawn. The red dress becomes the emotional center of the composition — intense, vulnerable, alive. It contrasts with the muted architectural background of greys, beiges, and deep blues, which feels structured and immovable, like the framework of external reality.
Around her body appear soft white forms resembling lambs. They hover close to her — near her shoulders, her back, her movement. These lamb-like shapes symbolize innocence, purity, and a childlike openness to the world. They evoke the fragile inner state that exists before experience hardens perception.
As the woman moves through the rigid geometry of her surroundings, these symbols of innocence seem suspended between presence and disappearance. The painting reflects a moment when circumstances force an inner shift — when a woman loses not her physical purity, but her naivety, her unquestioning trust, her untouched softness. It is about the quiet ending of a certain inner childhood.
The figure continues walking. There is no visible drama, no collapse. Only movement forward. The work embodies the tension between vulnerability and resilience — between what has been lost and what remains. It speaks about the transformation that occurs when life demands strength, and about the subtle mourning of the innocence that cannot return.
Materials used:
acrylic, oil
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 70 x 1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#red#woman#women#feminism#power#symbolicart