Worship

Year

2021

Medium

oil/paper

Dimensions

40x30

Series

Therapy Project

In this work, the central figure becomes not simply a body, but an almost cult-like image. She stands motionless, without a face or individual features, like an object of worship around which a tense ritual unfolds. The figures at her feet approach her, touch her, and bow down, as if trying to gain access to her power or mystery. Their gestures can be read as care, reverence, or dependence, yet they also carry an unsettling ambiguity: worship can easily turn into intrusion, and admiration into an attempt to possess another body. The dense blue background closes the space and makes the scene resemble an inner temple or a nocturnal ceremony. There is no everyday specificity here; everything takes place in a state between dream, fear, and sacred tension. What matters most in this work is not the action itself, but the atmosphere of submission and attraction. The central figure is both vulnerable and unreachable. She seems to be the object of others’ gestures, yet remains the main force of the composition: the entire field of desire, dependence, and worship gathers around her.