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      <image:caption>"Below the silence" ( Diptych ) 2025. A reflection on the space between thought and silence. I explores how inner life quietly moves beneath the surface. The figure interacts with an abstract whale - not as a creature, but as a symbol of memory and the weight of unspoken emotions. The whale swims through the depths of the inner world, carrying the heaviness of unsaid thoughts. It reflects my contemplation of how silence shapes our inner world, making its presence more profound than external life. Size 160 × 100 cm ( 2 pieces 80 × 100 cm ). Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"The wait" 2025. The focus is on patience and anticipation. A solitary fisherman casts his line into unknown depths, embodying the inner process of searching, reflection, and hope. I explore how quiet observation and waiting are essential aspects of the human inner experience, revealing hidden layers of thoughts and feelings that guide us from within. Size 80 x 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Unbound" 2025. The moment when control loosens and letting go leads to transformation. The rising inner energy, the freedom within that emerges as limitations dissolve. Reflection an exploration of the emotions of release - the transition from tension to flow - and how movement becomes a metaphor for letting go. Size 80 × 70 cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Head in the clouds" 2025. A duality - the simultaneous presence in the moment, and a mental journey. An inner exploration of consciousness and attention - how one part of us remains rooted in the moment, while another drifts through memories, imagination, or desire. The figure, suspended in soft, airy forms, embodies this tension between grounding and flight, expressing the relentless search for inner understanding between desire, imagination, and the real world. Size 100 x 80 cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Moon keeper" 2025. To protect rather than possess - to keep light and memories safe, within oneself. The solitary figure gently holds a thin veil of moonlight above the horizon, embodying the image of an inner safeguarding of what is most precious. Size 100 x 80 cm. Acrylic on canvas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Edge of Identity" 2024. The figure on the threshold between inner state and outer world reflects the fragile balance between how we are seen and how we feel. My reflection on the question of where identity resides: in the clear lines of external order, or in the shadows that resist them within us. Perhaps it exists precisely in the space between them. Size 80 x100cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Dreamer" 2024. A reflect on dreams as a transition - where the boundaries of body and mind blur, and reality transforms into subconscious imagination. The figure becomes both fragile and infinite, a reminder that the mind’s rest does not mean absence, but another kind of journey. Size: 80 × 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Kiss of the fall" 2024. There’s a softness in the way time changes things - slowly, quietly. The way leaves lose their color, faces change with time, and yet all remains beautiful in it's own way. Size: 80 × 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas. Size: 80 × 100 cm.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Veiled by the Moon" 2024. The hidden and the revealed. Red threads act as invisible connections between inner shadows and outer light, between silence and clarity. Size: 80 × 100 cm. Material: acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Before the storm" 2024. The feeling of an approaching storm - not just in nature or the city, but within ourselves. The reflection is less about weather and more about atmosphere - turbulence that shakes what once seemed stable, the fragile order of life encountering the chaos of sudden force. A contemplation on change: how storms, both real and metaphorical, clear space for something new. Size: 80 × 100 cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Mirrage" 2024. The fragile moment when we release old beliefs and emerge changed after an inner transformation. The figure merges with the landscape like a memory fading in the light. Lines soften, colors shift, and it becomes difficult to discern where features end and the horizon begins. Like a mirage - once real, yet ultimately vanished. Size: 100 × 80 cm. Acrylic on canvas.</image:caption>
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