Selectively cut back shallow lacquer layers to reveal nested colour contours at different depths, with a smooth polished surface and restrained highlights. Oshun, the Yoruba orisha of sweet rivers, wealth and love, a regal dignified woman in a flowing amber and yellow wrap with brass bangles and a brass crown, a hand mirror and a fan in her hands, standing in a river at dawn in a tall frame: a calm full-length figure in a long wrap that falls into the water, honey-gold light on the river around her, peacock feathers and river reeds beside her.
Light: a warm honey-gold dawn glow on the water, the cut-back layers revealing amber, saffron, deep orange and emerald beneath dark lacquer, the brass jewellery in bright cut-gold highlights, the river in teal and green; palette of amber, saffron, gold, teal and emerald; warm, serene, radiant.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the figure rising through the height of the frame. A dignified, respectful depiction of an orisha still venerated today, with accurate traditional iconography and fully clothed; no readable letters, inscriptions or logos anywhere, only plain geometric cloth and beadwork patterns.
