Tribal Beauty (Woman with Bird)

This painting stages a half-emergent figure within a furnace of ochres and burnt orange, where thick, worked surfaces feel less like background than weather—heat, dust, and memory pressed into pigment. The blue burst at the eye reads as a wound of clarity or a mask of refusal, turning the face into a contested site between exposure and self-protection. White, birdlike strokes cut across the field as fleeting signals—messengers of escape or interruption—while green at the margins offers a thin, persistent countercurrent of renewal against the dominant blaze.