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The Recluse (Self-portrait)

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Description

This work is not a representation of the artist’s face; it is a confrontation with a self that has withdrawn from the noise of the world and the certainty of representation, retreating instead into the silent territory of the inner realm. In this self-portrait, the face no longer exists as a stable identity, but as a fractured structure of memory, repression, and perception; as though the self, through the process of living, has gradually lost its original coherence and preserved only an unstable trace of its own presence. The eyes, rather than functioning as instruments of sight, appear as sealed architectural surfaces — signs of the subject’s refusal to be fully seen and of consciousness withdrawing into its private solitude. In contrast to this closure, the mouth becomes the final residue of expression: a suspended presence caught between speaking and swallowing language. The undulating lines surrounding the face operate like vibrational fields of the mind — waves of anxiety, memory, and time that erode the boundary between interior and exterior. In this work, solitude is not isolation, but a form of resistance; an attempt to preserve those parts of the self that refuse to reveal themselves before the gaze of the world.

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