Red Stripes, Hidden Tenderness

A surreal contemporary collage presents a side-profiled woman assembled from grayscale photographic fragments, her enlarged painted eye and looping braided hair giving the figure an uncanny, emblematic presence. She wears sharply contrasting black-and-white stripes with a vivid red-and-white skirt, while a smaller head-like figure rests within her folded arms. Against a clean white ground, the carefully cut forms, isolated color accents, and suspended gesture create a quiet but psychologically charged portrait of concealment, care, and identity.