Created with dry pastels on a monumental scale (100x70 cm) ,
For 120 hours , Sila is the third work in my collection
"Souls of the World".
SILA was born from the white silence, where the horizon merges with the sky, where ice shapes landscapes and beings. It embodies the soul of the polar lands, this icy immensity that seems frozen and eternal, yet vibrates with life and mystery.
Her face, both gentle and determined, is that of a woman whose inner strength transcends the harsh climate. Her fur-trimmed headdress is more than just clothing: it is the living memory of her Inuit people, a barrier against the cold, and also a spiritual legacy. Every fiber seems to tell a story of centuries of survival, transmission, and resilience.
Behind her, the sky blazes with the aurora borealis. These dancing lights are not mere natural phenomena: they are messengers of spirits, guardians of an inaccessible beauty, a reflection of the spiritual dimension that dwells within Sila. Their green, violet, and bluish hues mingle with her aura as if she herself were its source.
At its base, the ice cracks and drifts, a reminder that nature, even in its apparent stillness, is always in motion. The igloo that rises in the distance is not just a dwelling, but a symbol: that of human ingenuity in the face of adversity, of the fragile harmony between humankind and its environment.
SILA is not an isolated woman: she is the spirit of an entire Inuit people, the echo of ancestors who learned to listen to the wind, to read the ice, to live with the eternal night and the infinite day. She carries within her this ancestral wisdom, this sacred connection with the earth and the sky.
Through this portrait, she offers us not only her image: she invites us to feel the cold, to hear the silence, to contemplate the northern light as a breath from elsewhere.
SILA is the memory of the polar world, the face of survival, the soul of the infinite white.
