Title: Silence
Technique: Acrylic & Oil on canvas
Size: 50cm . 70cm
Trapped Silence is a powerful woman censorship resistance painting that unveils the quiet yet haunting reality of suppressed identity. A woman emerges from darkness, her face partly veiled by a red prohibition sign—a symbol of modern control featuring a phone and a theatrical mask. These icons suggest censorship, silenced communication, and the burden of forced performance.
 
Her exposed eye, heavy with knowing, meets the viewer in silent resistance. Clutched in her hand is a mosaic-like traditional bird — a quiet echo of cultural resilience and ancestral memory. The contrast between stark modern symbols and delicate folkloric art reveals a tension between suppression and expression, between being muted and being seen.
 
The painting is both personal and political — a reflection on the psychological weight of silenced voices and the persistent spirit of artistic defiance.