Enigma - The Mirror Holds Two Selves

The Mirror Holds Two Selves

I stand at the seam where I split - one side wild, hair streaming into golden light, the other still, blue-haired and composed, clutching flowers that have already begun to darken. The division runs through me cleanly, almost tenderly. On one side, water reflects a city dissolving into itself; on the other, pale walls hold their breath. My teal skirts gather and fall like something unfinished. The blooms at my side are caught between living and grieving, their petals warm against the surrounding cool. I am both versions, and neither is wrong.

-- Dimensions: 80 x 120 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.