Dialogue With Her 10 (The Fishmonger's Tale)

This composition stages a quiet human presence amid a torrent of fish, where the figure’s cool, blue-toned profile becomes a calm anchor against the heated reds and oranges that surge like a market’s pulse. Bold contour lines and flattened planes compress space into a theatrical frieze, turning everyday exchange into a ritual of looking—of weighing life, sustenance, and abundance. The fish, repeated in varied scale and direction, read as both commodity and chorus, their clustered eyes amplifying the sense of being watched by what is consumed. Between the restrained poise of the seated body and the restless swarm surrounding it, the painting meditates on intimacy with nature that is at once tender, transactional, and unsettlingly luminous.