Bijouterie — Blue Portrait with White Earrings

Two elongated white earrings stand out against a deep cobalt-blue background, framing a face built from muted blue and grey layers. The features remain partially obscured, while brown hair, a dark neckline and passages of pink and violet give the figure a quiet, frontal presence. Fine white lines along the edges echo the vertical shape of the earrings.

Part of Gela Mikava’s The Bijouterie series, this original acrylic painting explores the relationship between identity and adornment. The earrings are immediately recognisable, yet the person wearing them resists a fixed reading. Ornament becomes a point of recognition within a portrait shaped by concealment.

Visible brushwork and overlapping colour give the surface a tactile character, balancing the clarity of the white forms with the ambiguity of the face.