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Thomasin,
I guess I overlooked this! It's one of my favorites from your website. The eyes strike me immediately. "Mute suffering" is what I think of, and now that I read these comments about the mouth, it seems to fit in. Somehow you've expressed visually the feeling of pressure in the brain, both by the expression on your face (amazingly painted with such minimal detail) and the light around your head.
Actually to me the colors are very evocative. The dark, warm color of the majority of the painting seems like dense brain fog, or an "aura" in migraine language, that you can't see through. The relative coolness of the actual aura (in color/art language) looks to me like a visual description of pulsating pain. Fascinating portrait!
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