A figure standing in a small red boat floating on the water. Her elongated and distorted face is reminiscent of grotesque Renaissance portraits or the surrealist universe. She wears a pink blouse slipping off her shoulders, striped trousers, and a checked cap, an anachronistic mix of styles. Her slightly bent posture, holding a red oar, suggests a fragile and uncertain crossing. The setting is sparse: dark water and sketched shores, creating an almost mental space. The whole combines humour and anxiety, burlesque and poetry. We can see the influence of Hieronymus Bosch, Arcimboldo, but also surrealists such as Ernst. The subject seems to be an allegory of the inner journey, of the human condition oscillating between absurdity and quest.
In a fragile red boat,
a passenger with an uncertain face sails along.
Half woman, half mask, she moves forward through the waters of the unconscious,
propelled by a derisory oar.
Her clothes from another time tell of a twisted world,
where the absurd mirrors reality.
Between derision and gravity,
she embodies the journey of the human soul.