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Inhale

This is not a portrait of a person. It is a portrait of a moment.

One inhale. The weightless pause before words, before decisions, before everything that follows. A state of being present for a second longer than usual.

The figure emerges from a single, uninterrupted gesture. Fluid. Deliberate. Intimate. Nothing is added that does not need to be there. The scale of the canvas, 120 by 160 cm, makes the silence physical. The color field behind the figure does not fill the space. It balances it.

Inhale lives in that one suspended second when the world holds still and something unnamed begins.

autor: Marika Jozwiak

year: 2021

medium: Acrylic on canvas

size: 120 x 160 cm

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