Like An Unforgotten Nightmare (Primal Connection**) Mixed Media Figurative Painting

Set against a burnished, sand-gold field that feels both weathered and ceremonial, a ring of horned bodies gathers like a moving constellation, their mass rendered with tactile speckling that suggests dust, hide, and time. At the center, the seated female figure—pale-faced, still, and unyielding—becomes a quiet axis amid muscular circulation, her calm posture turning the surrounding herd into an orbit of guarded power rather than mere threat. The compressed space and overlapping forms create a suspended narrative of rite and resistance, where primal force is not opposed but negotiated, and the human presence reads as an emblem of fragile sovereignty within nature’s relentless momentum.