There are fires we don’t immediately understand.
Burns that remain vivid, even when words fall silent.

In this painting, the red-orange is not just color — it is an inner flame.
A spark that flickers between what is dying out… and what is being reborn.

Her gaze is steady, yet heavy with silence.
As if she carries something unspeakable — a secret, a wound, a force still untamed.
And all around her, the traces, the textures, the symbols become the landscape of a passage:
a path toward the self, toward what comes after.

The hummingbird, discreet yet present, keeps watch.
Messenger of souls in metamorphosis, it whispers perhaps this:
Even where it still burns, there lies the possibility of a new breath.

This artwork is part of the À fleur d’âme series — a pictorial journey through fragility, inner fire, and resilience.