Bijouterie — Blue Portrait with White Earrings

Series: The Bijouterie Medium: Acrylic on cardboard 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.