Nami
“Nami: the wave. I wanted it small, small enough to fit in two hands, but whole: the deep blue hollow, the curling crest, the cream foam unravelling into …
€800 — Popsan
“Nami: the wave. I wanted it small, small enough to fit in two hands, but whole: the deep blue hollow, the curling crest, the cream foam unravelling into curls, and drops escaping like pearls. She looks at it with her head bowed, unafraid, with the attention you give a bird that might fly away. The light comes from the water. It rises over the palms, the chin, the lowered eyelids, and lets the midnight-blue kimono fall back into shadow. The background I kept a warm red-brown, so that the coldness of the wave would show all the more. In her chignon, a pin holds a single small pearl, which shines like one of the drops. She could close her hands, or open them. It would take so little for the s…
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