Pensive Gaze
2025, Soft pastel on pastelmat board, 30× 42cm.

In this small, unguarded pause, her expression softens into something calm and open.

Not longing,
but gentleness.
Not memory,
but quiet presence.

Her eyes shift with a softness that feels almost new,
as though she is allowing herself to feel without hesitation, without defence. The warm light reveals the tenderness rising within her, a softness she never forces, a truth she never announces.

It is a moment where she simply is honest, vulnerable, quietly alive, letting a silent understanding settle in her chest like a fragile light she is learning to hold.