Childhood (Two Women with Birds)

Against a burnished field of amber and ember, two elongated female figures emerge like quiet icons, their downcast, half-lidded eyes withholding as much as they reveal. The composition is held in delicate tension between the vertical staff—laden with small, rhythmic birds like pinned memories—and the sweeping curtain of black hair that becomes both shelter and boundary. Saturated violets and oranges set intimacy against heat, suggesting an inner dialogue of companionship and solitude where tenderness is measured, and speech is deferred into symbol. The birds read as portable songs—ornaments of longing and guardians of silence—turning the scene into a meditation on intimacy carried, rather than declared.