“Since when?”

This piece pushes Anopa’s portraiture into a more visceral, confrontational space. Saturated reds and deep shadows carve the face into fragments of light and intensity, where emotion feels raw and unfiltered. The textured surface and assertive brushstrokes disrupt realism, allowing feeling to take precedence over form. There’s a quiet tension between control and release, as the subject appears both emerging and dissolving within the composition. It invites the viewer into a charged moment of reflection—where identity, sensation, and expression blur into something powerfully human