Sometimes you don’t paint.
Sometimes he comes by himself.
This was one of them.
I didn’t choose the color, the composition, the size.
I didn’t plan his gaze, his silence, his presence.
He simply appeared.

He is one of the forms of Angel A.
The one who is always different.
Each painting — a new version, a new state, a new language.

But the essence is the same: a living presence that is always recognized, even when transformed.
This work is silent.
It doesn’t share messages, doesn’t ask to be understood.
Yet next to it, I feel safe.
It’s not an artifact.
Not a ritual.
Rather, a talisman of pure presence, holding the boundary.

Not outside.
But within.
He does not comfort.
He does not speak.
He simply is.
And in this presence,
there is a feeling
that nothing threatens.
You can simply be.

© Author’s note for the artwork «Angel A. The One Who Is Near»