The “Absent Portrait” Series is a group of oil paintings about time, waiting, and emotional absence. Centered on female faces, the works use a pop-art visual language, softened color blocks, and emotionally charged light to drift between reality and memory. The figures’ gazes are elusive—both meeting and avoiding the viewer—as if responding to a relationship that has been unseen for a long time yet never disappeared. Colors flow between pink, purple, and blue, creating a space suspended between dream and reality, symbolizing how memory is repeatedly covered and repainted by time. The faces are clear, yet the relationship is blurred—this is the visual form of “absence”: a presence that is not present.

Artwork Size & Ink Base:

il on canvas, 150x150cm, 2022

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