“Where I Begin”

“Where I Begin”
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 70 cm
2023

There is a strange moment after an inner transformation when the world suddenly stops feeling empty.
You enter a space, and it no longer remains silent. It begins to respond to you.

This painting became a continuation of “Line. You First.” But while the first work was about the moment before the step, this one is about life after it.

The same female figure is no longer alone inside a blue silence. The space around her begins to move, breathe, and vibrate with her energy. As if an inner voice, restrained for so long, has finally stepped outward and changed the very structure of the air around her.

I wanted to portray the state in which a person no longer tries to become themselves. They already are.And now the world slowly starts rearranging itself around their true frequency.The dark forms resemble waves, shadows, or emotional memory. But they no longer consume the figure. Instead, they move with her and become part of her new space.

This painting is about the moment when inner strength stops being hidden and begins to influence reality itself.

“There is no need to hurry. No need to sparkle. There is no need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf