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⌜ BONDS_ ⌝

Bonds was born from an oil painting created years ago: a dense, narrative group composition where elongated, silent figures seem to belong to a shared family story. Each character relates to the others through posture, gaze, and subtle gestures, weaving invisible threads between past and present.

The digital reworking deconstructs and reconstructs the original painting, transforming figurative bonds into new graphic connections. The synthesis becomes stronger: figures are purified, lines simplified, volumes reduced — giving space to a visual rhythm shaped by neutral and harmonious palettes. The ties remain, but change form.

In the first isolated portrait, one of the female figures detaches from the group. The torso is still, but a subtle animation reveals a slow breath. Her hair extends beyond the frame, opening outward and suggesting a connection reaching beyond, toward something invisible yet present.

The final group scene is a contemporary reinterpretation of the original painting. The figures are still there, but redrawn and reshaped — yet still tied together by invisible threads. The result is a revisited memory, a bond that does not dissolve but transforms.