Happy New Year 2022
80 x 90 cm
Acrylic, oil sticks, pencil on canvas

This painting marks the starting point of the series, capturing a specific moment in time as it was felt in January 2022. Shaped by the lingering presence of the pandemic, the atmosphere still carried a sense of fragile normality.

Created just weeks before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the work reflects a moment defined by disbelief a time when such a rupture seemed unthinkable. In retrospect, it becomes a document of a world on the verge of change.

The painting holds this threshold: a quiet before the shift, preserving a reality that, in hindsight, already belonged to the past.