Gimonde

Alt text: Pale green and yellow abstract with a large white form bordered by dark brown architectural shapes

Detailed description:

Gimonde

Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 40 cm.

The painting is composed of shades of pale green, yellow, white, very dark brown approaching black, and violet.

The background consists of layered areas of pale green and yellow tones, applied with visible brushstrokes. Broad patches of white paint partially cover the surface, creating irregular overlapping shapes.

In the lower half of the composition, a large, irregular white form appears, bordered on the left and along the bottom by a thick structure painted in very dark brown, approaching black, with rough, uneven edges. The angular arrangement of these dark forms loosely suggests part of a house or wall.

On the right side of the white area, a rectangular window-like shape is outlined with thin violet lines and divided vertically by a single line.

Across the upper part of the composition, a dark diagonal line extends from the lower left to the upper right. Along this line, a sequence of small triangular white shapes appears, each outlined with a thin violet contour.

The star fell right into his open palms. Cool, radiant, pure light — all the colors of the world.

He breathed out like a warm spring wind, wanting to become no one — and became everything.

He counted the curls in his beloved’s hair — forty-seven, forty-eight, one hundred fifty-four — love has no such numbers, and no need for them anyway.

He woke up to the tapping of raindrops on the windowsill, leaned halfway out the window and felt alive. He opened his mouth, catching the drops with his tongue. This certainly wouldn't hurt, and a little bit of April in his body was exactly what he needed.

He was pressing his cheek against the rough side of an old, abandoned monastery, when noticed the squirrel scurrying nearby along a path of large, worn-down stones. He fumbled in his pocket. Found some nuts.