The painting depicts a couple embracing. The man embraces the woman with a mixture of love and pain, and the question immediately arises: Why those black hands? This work is about the END of the war; in those hands lies the answer to the question of what he saw, what he experienced, how he survived. She, tired of waiting, is happy to see him again. This is the union of souls after a long and unbearably difficult separation. I wanted to convey the whole range of feelings, from love to the tragedy of the possible presence of war in our modern life.
I used a silver-military palette with a scarlet accent. The art work is made in my characteristic technique of authorial pontilism.
The artwork is painted on canvas and framed, ready for display.