Bambina color magenta
2010 – Acrylic on canvas – 50x70cm
A girl on the threshold of adolescence poses to have her portrait painted. Her skin is a deep magenta red, a flower rests in her hair, and she wears a patterned yellow dress. Her gaze is innocent, yet it carries the fragile shimmer of a moment about to shift—soon to become a hybrid of mischief and the soft ache of broken dreams, while holding on to a crystalline spark… just enough to remember she was once a child. This work captures the instant when innocence was still intact.