Attitude 15 (Figure with Bird)

Rendered in spare, continuous line, the elongated face becomes a quiet stage where expression is suggested rather than declared—heavy-lidded eyes drifting sideways with a practiced ambivalence that feels both intimate and withheld. Against the vast white of negative space, the single green bird perched like a living ornament reads as thought made visible: a tender weight of instinct and memory resting at the crown, softening the figure’s cool detachment. The restrained palette—ashen greys, muted flesh, and that decisive green—creates a gentle tension between interior stillness and the possibility of flight, as if the work is about the fragile negotiations between selfhood and the impulses that alight upon it.