Painful Wholeness
Artwork details
She is not two parts — she is one, but divided. In her face, two paths diverge: one offers a shy smile, the other screams in silence. Every layer, every contour on her body reveals that wholeness — true selfhood — does not come through calm. It comes through pain, through wounds, through clenched fingers and trails of blood.
Her hand grips a figure — perhaps an old soul, a sacrifice, or the part of her most afraid of being lost. Behind her, peaceful colors only intensify the storm within.
“Painful Wholeness” is a wound that refuses to heal until you fully feel yourself — as you are: fractured, torn, and still whole.
- Country
- Georgia
- Category
- Collage
- Medium
- Paper
- Theme
- Figure
- Dimensions
- 15.4 × 11.4 in
- On Artelista
- SINCE MAY 6, 2025
- Tags
- abstract, contemporary, painting, figurative, expressionism
- License
- © All rights reserved
About the artist
Nika Abshilava
Georgia | Painting, Drawing, Collage
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