This series of three colour works, executed with biros, is an intimate study of the human in its diversity and depth. Each portrait captures a different face, a particular energy, united by the same technique that combines the immediacy of the pen with the sensitivity of colour applied with restraint and decision.
One of the paintings portrays an Indian man with an intense gaze and abundant, almost wild, grey hair. His hair is not just a physical feature, but a presence, a symbol of identity, of history, of belonging. The pen precisely details the folds of the face, while the colour brings warmth, highlights the contrast between the skin and the hair, and lets the background breathe with a subtly charged atmosphere.
The other two pieces complete the set: different faces, different silences. One perhaps more serene, the other more defiant, but all traversed by the same intention: to capture the invisible. The emotion beneath the surface. The instant suspended between what is seen and what is sensed.
It is not a series about specific characters, but about what they have in common: the imprint of time, the strength of expression, the dignity that emanates from the real. The pen, with its definitive stroke, forces us to look carefully; the colour, with its fragility, reminds us that there is beauty even in the unfinished.
Three paintings. Three faces. A single voice.