This study of lemons in charcoal captures with sober intensity the stillness and complexity of the everyday. The painting presents three lemons arranged on a rough surface, probably wood, where the texture is insinuated with dense, dark strokes. There is no colour, only shadows. The absence of vibrant yellow forces the viewer to look beyond the obvious: to observe the wrinkles in the skin, the subtle weight of each fruit, the way the light hits the outline and dissolves into the background, almost as if the lemons were emerging from a silent penumbra. The process of creation was entirely analogue: it began with prolonged observation in natural afternoon light, in a small studio with west-facing windows. The lemons were placed unpretentiously, without any studied composition, simply as they had been left after purchase at the market. What began as a technical exercise in chiaroscuro became a graphic meditation on time and imperfection. Inspiration was born out of a need to pause. The artist, overwhelmed by the constant rhythm of digital colour and the immediacy of modernity, sought refuge in the elemental: paper, charcoal and fruit. There is something in lemons that refers to the ephemeral - their aroma, their acidity, their ripening process - and that transience is contrasted here with the permanence of the graphite on the paper. In each stroke we perceive the intention of capturing not only a form, but a sensation: the light weight of the simple that nevertheless persists in the visual memory.