Enigma - We Forgot How to Look

We Forgot How to Look

I cover my face because the light has become too honest, and beside me, the small one does the same - we have learned this from each other, this gentle turning away. My dress pools around me in layers of pale blue, unfinished at the edges, as though I am still becoming. Behind us, something burns in amber and rust, ancient and unhurried, while the dark swallows the rest. The brushstrokes are loose where the world is uncertain, and precise only where it hurts. I am not hiding. I am simply waiting for the moment to pass into something quieter.

-- Dimensions: 100 x 75 x 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Psychological Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.

About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination - not to tell a story, but to ask a question.
The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas.
Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color.
Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another - and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.