Ashes of Almost I smoke at the window and wait for you. Evening leans on the glass; the city folds into hush. The sky darkens and my heart keeps time. Each pull is a small clock, a pale lighthouse in a room of long shadows, burning down the minutes I can’t swallow. I swear I dressed in black—the honest shade of patience—but the pane keeps rinsing me to blue. Lapels, knuckles, the crease of my hat: all taking the tide of it, as if the window were an ocean and I were already wading in. Ash falls like slow rain. The air tastes of almost. If you come, the room will turn and night will find its edges again. Will I see you and be no longer blue? Will your knock return my suit to black, my lungs to breath, my name to its truest color? * Unique, one-of-a-kind painting * 100% hand-painted acrylic on canvas * Signed on the back * Stretched on wood and ready to hang * Does not come with a frame * Includes a certificate of authenticity * Ships from Italy with full insurance Pippo (born in Monza) is a contemporary painter exploring the terrain between solitude, elegance, and geometric abstraction, moving fluidly between realism and surrealism. He worked professionally as a graphic designer before devoting himself to painting full-time and settling near Lake Maggiore. Reserved and introspective, he writes privately and prefers his canvases to speak. His imagery balances stylized figures with geometric order, often casting the human–animal bond in a gently surreal light. Frequently faceless to leave room for the imagination, his characters appear in elegant attire, poised within stark, modernist rooms. Sharp angles, measured negative space, and precise reflections create both boundaries and possibilities, inviting viewers to wonder what lies beyond. A restrained palette—black and white punctuated by decisive color—intensifies the mood, while staged light and recurring motifs, from a solitary moon to a glowing sun, lend quiet, cinematic poetry. Grounded in the discipline of design, Pippo’s compositions fuse clarity and mystery, bridging realism and surrealism through clean line, calibrated color, and atmospheric stillness. From the calm of Lake Maggiore, he refines a language of elegant economy—using light, geometry, and silence to evoke stories of longing, memory, and contemplative grace.