Girl and Her Hair

"Girl and Her Hair"
canvas, oil, 40x50cm
2023

For sale

In this work, I am interested in a moment that usually goes unnoticed: not a pose made for the viewer, but a brief, almost ordinary gesture in which a person returns to herself. The figure is shown from the back, and for that very reason there is less outward display and more inner concentration. The tension in the arms, the line of the spine, the turn of the head, the hair being gathered up — everything here is held in a fragile balance between vulnerability and control.

The warm orange-red background intensifies the bodily presence and makes the scene feel intimate, almost close in its atmosphere. The pale skin stands out against it with particular clarity, yet this openness is not about display — it is about a state of being. I am drawn to the contrast between the softness of living flesh and the discipline of movement: the body feels both relaxed and alert. The floral rhythm of the fabric below adds intimacy and gently disrupts any overly direct reading of the image, bringing it back into the space of personal, unposed life.

For me, this work is not only about the figure, but about the boundary between what is visible and what remains hidden, between an everyday gesture and the inner silence in which a person is left alone with herself for a few seconds.