Untitled 13 (A Moment of Tranquility)

A reclining figure, turned away from the viewer, becomes the quiet fulcrum of the composition—her cobalt blouse and saffron drapery pulsing against a surrounding world rendered in hushed greys, as if color itself were a private interiority. The painter choreographs space through layered fabrics and broad, leaf-like forms that press inward, creating a protective enclosure where the body reads less as portrait than as a landscape of rest, weight, and breath. Light gathers on the folds like remembered warmth, while the monochrome environment suggests the everyday dissolving into dream, leaving the figure suspended between intimacy and anonymity. In this tension, the work meditates on refuge: the tenderness of withdrawal, and the dignity of stillness as an act of self-possession.