Enigma - The Weight of Still Hours

The Weight of Still Hours

He holds me from behind as though I might dissolve into the dark circle that swallows the world. I do not resist. My hair has gone pale with waiting, my skirts pooled green around me like something left in water too long. The red above us burns without warming anything. Below, the black cat watches, knowing what I will not say aloud. Lanterns flicker at the edges of a garden I can no longer enter. The brushstrokes around us blur where certainty ends, and I simply sit, carried by arms that may not be real.

-- Dimensions: 120 x 80 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.