In Tune 5 Oil Figurative Painting

Three figures coalesce from a ground of ash and milk-white abrasion, their faces emerging as if remembered rather than observed—half veiled by scumbled light that both reveals and erases. The composition presses their bodies into an intimate cluster while a stark vertical plane to the right—like a wall, sail, or threshold—cuts the space with cold restraint, intensifying the sense of quiet confinement. Warm rusts and bruised violets pulse beneath the surface, suggesting emotional heat held under a deliberately muted palette, as though tenderness must negotiate with silence. The work reads as a meditation on proximity and distance: a small human constellation suspended at the edge of departure, where identity is fragile and touch becomes the only certainty.