Enigma - The Cage I Chose

Title: A Gaiola que Escolhi

Description: Segurei seu pequeno peso por tanto tempo que esqueci que nunca foi meu para manter. Agora minha mão se abre, e o galho retira o que tomei emprestado — uma asa, uma canção, uma liberdade que confundi com companhia. O mar não diz nada. As montanhas guardam seu antigo silêncio. Estou entre deixar ir e já sentir falta, minha palma vazia ainda curvada em torno da forma de algo que amei o bastante para soltá-lo.

-- Dimensions: 75 × 100 × 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: Narrative 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.