Orange Face

White and deep-green feathers open almost like a flower over a warm shoulder, on a pink ground. Across the skin, a fragment of handwritten Portuguese verse about youth.

The words were there before the painting. In Brazilian Poems I let some of them surface, the way a line from a song returns years later without being called.

• Original oil painting · one of a kind (1/1), hand-signed
• Oil on wood board · 10 × 10 in (25.4 × 25.4 cm) · 2024
• Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity
• Ships from the studio in Toronto — free shipping in Canada, flat $25 to the US
• Sold as-is, no returns