You can love all your life and fall out of love on a Thursday

You can love all your life and fall out of love on a Thursday. Acrylic on canvas, 2018, 100x100 cm.

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I want to give her a name, but I haven’t done it yet—her face is too beautifully genderless. To me, she is absolutely beautiful. She is the calm of my eyes and the love of my eyes.

This painting is not just a depiction of a face; it challenges established ideas of beauty and gender, using pop art techniques to merge the aesthetic with the everyday. The face on this canvas recalls figures from mass culture: its brightness, simplicity of lines, and rich colors make it accessible and instantly recognizable. But unlike typical pop art subjects, this face doesn’t shout or seek attention. Instead, it invites a quiet dialogue, a moment of contemplation and inner calm.

Pop art, with its focus on everyday culture, allows this image to become part of our daily lives. The bright and contrasting colors evoke the images we see around us: billboards, magazine covers, street art. In this way, the face on the canvas speaks to us in the language of modern life, becoming an inseparable part of it. Yet, at the same time, it encourages viewers not only to see the everyday but to transcend it, to look beyond superficial beauty.

This work is crafted to engage with our everyday perception. It seems to say, “Stop, look deeper.” In the fast pace of modern life, we often skim over surfaces, not noticing details. This painting resists that habit. It draws attention to simple, mesmerizing beauty that can be as soothing as the routine moments we often overlook—the morning light through a window, city sounds, a hot cup of coffee.

Here, pop art becomes a metaphor for our times; its brightness and accessibility resonate with how we view the world around us. Yet the figure’s lack of gender affiliation prompts us to consider that beauty is neither a label nor a style but depth and sincerity. This painting is one you could live with every day, always discovering something new in it, contemplating it just as you would familiar moments of your day, finding a new dimension in simple things.