Threads of memories

A moment of inward turning, where pleasure is not external but internal—delicate, silent, and woven into memory. The woman’s closed eyes do not suggest sleep, but awakening: to sensation, to vulnerability, to the quiet pull of desire not yet spoken. The fine white threads across her face are not restraints, but traces—lines of experience, emotion, and time. They speak of everything that touches us and leaves no mark on the skin, only within. Her neck is wrapped in blooming flowers, suggesting that even when we are caught in the fragile tension of feeling, beauty continues to grow—sometimes because of it. This painting is not about a single emotion, but a landscape of sensation where ecstasy and pain exist in the same breath. It reflects the paradox of the human condition: our yearning to be free. Style: Contemporary symbolic realism infused with surrealist poetics and romantic introspection. The work merges precise figurative technique with dreamlike imagery and emotional ambiguity. Light, texture, and organic motifs are used not to illustrate, but to evoke—inviting the viewer into a state of contemplative empathy.