Untitled 12 (Serene Shepherdess**)

A heat-saturated red field stages a dreamlike pastoral where sheep curl into monumental arcs, their wool rendered as tactile, almost cloudlike matter that both shelters and confines. Against this plush labyrinth, the solitary figure in blue—face turned in profile with a guarded, inward gaze—reads as a quiet witness to cyclical labor and instinct, while floral motifs embedded in the central form suggest memory and fecundity blooming inside enclosure. The composition’s looping contours and compressed space create a gentle claustrophobia, turning the pastoral into an allegory of protection versus possession, where tenderness and constraint become indistinguishable.