Untitled (Tranquil Waters)

Set within a grove of pale, skeletal trunks and saturated earth, the figures gather in a quiet, ceremonial stillness where daily life feels elevated into parable. The composition stages a tense harmony between human presence and animal innocence—goats and fowl at the women’s hands—suggesting caretaking as both livelihood and moral measure. Flattened forms and unwavering gazes deny anecdote in favor of icon-like gravity, while warm ochres and greens hold the scene in a timeless, rural intimacy. The solitary male figure at the right, poised mid-gesture, reads like a threshold between protection and authority, implying that community is shaped as much by tenderness as by watchfulness.