Unspoken Embrace

Aliya Abs’ latest series is a meditation on connection, emotion, and the ephemeral nature of time. Blending still lifes with figurative scenes, she creates a narrative in which vases of flowers symbolize both renewal and fragility, while figures—women, men, and couples—embody love, longing, and security. With a soft, muted palette and simplified forms, Abs invites interpretation, allowing each composition to serve as a fragment of a larger, unspoken story. The presence of men with cats introduces a subtle subversion of traditional masculinity, offering a quiet reflection on tenderness and introspection. Balancing structure and fluidity, pattern and movement, her paintings evoke a sense of poetic intimacy, where each viewer can find echoes of their own emotions and memories. In Abs' Own Words:"In this series, I blend still lifes of flowers with figurative scenes to create a narrative aboutcloseness, emotions, and the transience of the moment. The vases with flowers symbolize bothfreshne