Title: Miner Technique: Oil over acrylic Support: Canvas on panel Dimensions: 25.5 × 25.5 cm Year of completion: 2022 Edition: Unique piece Signature: Signed on the back
This painting is an image of labor and silence. The miner’s figure appears absorbed by his surroundings, as if body and matter were fused together. His gesture is slow, contained, and conveys a quiet strength. What surrounds him seems like an inner world — a mental space where work, effort, and memory blend with stains, textures, and fragments of the past. There is no glorification or sentimentality. There is presence, weight, truth. The roughness of the painting reinforces that reading. It speaks from experience — from something lived. A solitary figure, but not isolated: part of something broader, something deeper.
