Name: Muse VIII 40x40cm - A L I C E
Price: 700.00 EUR
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Description

Part of The Muses, a collection of ten works exploring ten distinct emotions and states of mind, Muse VIII is the self-sabotaging muse — the inner force that interrupts, doubts and quietly works against its own becoming.

She embodies that fractured space where desire and resistance coexist, where the impulse to grow is met by an equally strong impulse to retreat, distort or undo. Rather than presenting sabotage as something loud or overt, the work captures its more intimate form: the subtle inner tension through which we delay ourselves, question our worth, or disrupt what is trying to emerge.

The figure feels emotionally unstable, caught between construction and collapse, between revelation and concealment. There is a sense of internal conflict running through the composition, as though the muse is both creating herself and unmaking herself at the same time.

Muse VIII speaks about vulnerability, contradiction and the deeply human habit of becoming our own obstacle. She is not simply destructive, but painfully aware — a portrait of the inner friction that can stand between who we are and who we might become.