Ephemeral Presence — Tribute to Audrey Hepburn is part of the Silent Icons series, which reinterprets the visual grammar of Western sacred iconography through contemporary cultural figures from fashion, cinema, and opera. Audrey Hepburn embodies a quality rare among icons: grace without armour. Where other figures of her era projected power or glamour, Audrey offered something more fragile and more lasting — an elegance inseparable from her humanity. Portrayed wearing a sculptural gown of cascading white feathers, a silhouette that seems to dissolve at the edges, as if she might vanish at any moment. The title Ephemeral Presence reflects precisely this: the sense that her beauty and gentleness were always somehow too pure for this world — and yet they remain, indelible. Oil on canvas, 60 × 200 cm.
