Untitled 17 (Market Day)

Set against a saffron field that reads like sun-baked plaster, the woman’s cool blue drapery becomes a corridor of quiet—an inward space carved out from the market’s abundance. The composition balances intimacy and commerce: bananas swell like a domestic offering while stylized birds and geometric motifs hover as folk emblems, turning everyday trade into a coded ritual of continuity. Her averted profile and clasped hands suggest restraint amid plenty, as if the painting is less about selling fruit than about safeguarding dignity, memory, and the measured tempo of ordinary life.