AJ142 | Oil on Canvas 150 × 100 cm | 2026

The mother holds the child within a quiet moment before sleep, shaping a space where the story can unfold, while another woman remains awake, watching from a distance between belief and waiting, and in the background the father appears with a horse and minimal signs of travel, not fully present but suggested as a distant return, received by the child not as a figure to see but as something heard within the story