Original artwork description:

Zakhar Shevchuk’s Waiting (2021) is a 95x70 cm oil from the Old Photographs series, where the “flaws” of old snapshots – blur, scratches, light leaks – become poetic devices. The project investigates how suggestion can carry more truth than description when we recall the past.

A boy stands still in what reads as a train/bus station. Teal shadows and warm flares shape the concourse; outlines appear, soften, and shift as if seen through moving film. The viewer participates in the image by finishing it – deciding whether he awaits transport or someone dear.

Balancing narrative hint and painterly abstraction, Waiting offers an intimate, psychologically charged scene. The artist accepts commissions in this series and scale.

Materials used:

Oil

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