The girl on page XXIV

• The Castaway's Wife

Mixed Media - Acrylic, gouache, and watercolor 29.7×21cm / Bound

She looked at herself from the outside, and she still saw dignity. She found beauty in her rouge, in her red hair, in her clothes and jewels... She found her countenance dignified, even despite the red line that bound her to him. Her ikigai kept her tied to a deceased man. A torturer, a monster they sanctified once he disappeared. She continued to feel dignified in spite of it: she remained intact, silent, unfeeling...