Only Want to Be Happy?!

A controlled outcry - an inner eruption seeking recognition and justice, like a question caught in the throat yet no longer willing to stay silent. Reds, yellows and complementary tones, dense and saturated, collide in a tight, kinetic composition, creating a space where personal and collective pain merge into a sharp, breath-like tension. Within the layered surface, fragmented female figures emerge - partial faces, severed gazes, bodies breaking apart and dissolving into the chaotic order of color. Their presence is not decorative: they carry a hidden pain, a quiet testimony to structures of control, suppression, and a body denied its voice. They appear and disappear between layers of pigment, like the memory of something shattered that still insists on being heard. The phrase “Only Want to Be Happy?!” rises inside the painting as a lifted cry - not a naïve request, but a demand shaped by experiences of dominance, violence, and a suffocating social reality. The colors pulse rapidly, like a heartbeat struggling to steady itself, leaving a pressure in the chest and a sting behind the eyes - a moment before everything breaks open. It is an energy that does not fade but stands, vibrating, persisting; a scream structured as composition, a question written in color, and a deep longing for repair suspended in the air - quiet, yet sharply present.