A lunar presence — soft, distant, and luminous, like moonlight behind thin clouds.

This portrait recalls mythological figures of light and shadow. Named after Selene, the goddess of the moon, the figure glows with an inward luminosity, veiled yet radiant. The threads act as moonlight’s haze, diffusing clarity, so the image becomes an archetype rather than an individual: the eternal feminine presence, both earthly and cosmic. Through threads, the face becomes timeless, suspended between myth and materiality.

Ani Abakumova

Selene

Threads of Slumber transforms sleep into a quiet landscape of light and thread. Thousands of fine strands, anchored by brass nails, shape a figure that seems to drift between presence and disappearance — as if woven from the substance of a dream.

Soft hues of pink, yellow, and shadow dissolve into one another, evoking warmth, tenderness, and the fragility of rest. Within this intricate web, the boundaries of the body blur; what remains is a sense of breathing light, of serenity gently unfolding in motion.

A meditation on the dream state, Threads of Slumber captures the moment when thought fades into feeling, and the world becomes weightless — a vision held in the fragile geometry of sleep.

Reverie

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Selene

Reverie