Beginning

A young woman sits at the water's edge wrapped in a blue shawl patterned with pale flowers, a striped orange cloth bundled at her waist. She raises one hand to tuck windblown hair behind her ear while her other hand rests in her lap. To her left a seagull spreads its wings low over wet sand, its reflection doubled in the shallow water beneath a hazy, luminous horizon.

Soft, diffused golden light dissolves sky and sea into pale, atmospheric haze, while the figure and shawl carry firmer strokes and saturated blue. The contrast between the crisply painted figure and the misty distance creates a quiet stillness, the gull's motion the only interruption in the calm.