Dream of a girl

A young girl's face, eyes closed, rests low in the composition, half-submerged in a dense, patterned field of golden grasses and small white blossoms. Two pale arms reach outward from the foliage on either side, hands open, while clusters of tiny medieval towers and half-timbered houses nestle among gnarled silver-gray branches and dark trees scattered through the upper half of the scene.

Rendered in shimmering golds, ochres and mossy greens with fine linear detailing, the surface reads like an inlaid mosaic or stained glass rather than a conventional canvas. The flattened, densely ornamented space and the girl's serene, closed-eyed expression give the whole scene a hushed, dreamlike stillness.