She Waits Outside Her Own Life
“Her shift is over and she has not left. Still in uniform, cup in hand, sitting in the dry grass, she watches the lit room where she spends her days as if…
€3,700 — Le Yack
“Her shift is over and she has not left. Still in uniform, cup in hand, sitting in the dry grass, she watches the lit room where she spends her days as if it were a film in which she is not the heroine. The neon spills over the wet tarmac, a man in a suit stands with his back to us near a car, and she stays there, outside, on the wrong side of the glass. What I paint is the silent gap between who we are and who we would like to be, that moment when we watch ourselves from afar without knowing whether we are waiting for someone, or waiting to become someone. Some evenings, other people’s light seems warmer than our own.” — Le Yack Technique: oil on stretched canvas Size: 80 × 80 cm (square) …
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