Lady with Cello

A young woman dressed in black pulls back heavy dark curtains and looks beyond them. The sky is blood-red; her skin is pale. The shadows are heavy. It’s the image of abandonment.

The theatricality of the image with which Daniel Salvi speaks of the sense of abandonment is similar to that of a mourning that tears the psyche like a broad wound. The person, feeling abandoned, tries to scrutinize their own reality for a reason but finds only new questions and their own pain.