Fruit Seller (Threads of Life) Mixed Media Figurative Painting

Framed like a triptych of memory, the composition sets a solitary figure before a glowing, altar-like field of reds and ochres, as if standing at the threshold between private longing and communal ritual. The side panels swarm with loosely drawn vignettes—embraces, gatherings, watchful faces—rendered in wavering lines that feel more recalled than observed, turning social life into a chorus of half-heard voices. Saturated greens and ember reds pulse against the pale ground, so the work oscillates between tenderness and unease, suggesting that belonging is both shelter and spectacle. In its layered, childlike syntax of image and symbol, the painting reads as a personal liturgy: a fragile self negotiating the heat of experience while the community gathers, judges, and consoles.