Untitled 3 Mixed-Media Figurative Painting

Against a field of incandescent red, two masked presences emerge like half-remembered figures from a private myth, their faces reduced to symbols—crossed bands, a small ember of a mouth—suggesting identities constructed as much as concealed. The composition hinges on a charged duality: the cool, rippling blues of the left figure read as breath and distance, while the right figure’s warmer, earth-toned headpiece anchors the scene with a quieter, ritual gravity. Layered textures and ghosted motifs—birds, fragments, stains—hover at the edges like intrusive thoughts, turning the surrounding space into a psychological weather system rather than a background. The work ultimately feels less like portraiture than an allegory of intimacy under siege, where tenderness persists inside armor and silence becomes its own language.