This is neither portrait nor symbol. It is an archetypal female figure — dense and whole, like a layer of memory preserved in the body.

The face is not painted; presence appears from darkness by extracting light from a darkened canvas: not by addition, but by revelation.

There is no need to please or explain; there is a steadiness of form in which life finds its ground.

The surrounding silence is not emptiness — it is the breath of matter.


© Author’s note for the artwork «Untitled /Archetypal Figure/»