The Altered Reality of Yesterday (18x24)
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My painting mirrors the cultural condition of a society consumed by surface—where appearances are engineered and identities reshaped until the original self is no longer visible.
The painting draws attention to the cosmetic obsession of modern life, where beauty becomes a performance of survival rather than an expression of authenticity. The woman’s exaggerated lips and eyes dominate the frame, recalling the physical exaggerations of cosmetic alteration, while the dog’s presence—symbolizing loyalty, instinct, and the unaltered natural world—dissolves into abstraction. This interplay suggests how even innocence and authenticity are subsumed by cultural fixation.
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Selling since September 2025
My name is NESTA—painter, writer, and artist born from the ache of absence. I came to the canvas not through ambition, but through mourning; when my grandmother passed, the world lost its shape, and so I began painting to find new ones. Grief taught me that silence has a weight, and color became my only language heavy enough to carry it. I never set out to be seen—only to survive the echo she left behind. But somewhere between the chaos of brushstrokes and the stillness of drying paint, I began to recognize myself, not just as someone who creates, but as someone becoming through the act of CREATING.
Art is never just decoration or technique — it is the language of the unseen.
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