I See You in My Breaths

Description

Title: I See You in My Breaths

Artist: ArNoUx
Medium: Acrylic on small recycled box (approx. 10 x 8 in)
Style: German Expressionist Figurative
Year: 2025

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Curatorial Statement – ArNoUx

I See You in My Breaths is an intimate German Expressionist work painted on a small recycled box, transforming a simple object into a vessel of emotional presence. The face that emerges is both ethereal and haunting, built from sweeping black strokes layered over soft skin tones and gentle greens. The result is a portrait that feels whispered rather than spoken — a vision captured in the fragile space between breath and memory.

The expressive brushwork suggests a figure seen not with the eyes, but with the soul:
in sighs, in longing, in every inhalation and exhalation.

The rawness of the recycled surface adds to the vulnerability of the piece, reinforcing the truth that even humble materials can hold profound emotion when touched by the artist’s hand. ArNoUx’s signature gestural style — loose, instinctive, deeply human — turns the box into a living heartbeat, a tiny monument to presence, longing, and spiritual connection.

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Artist Statement (for this piece)

“I see you even in the softest places of my life — in my breaths, my silences, my sighs. Everything I paint holds a piece of what I feel.”

— ArNoUx, 2025