You never get her face. The frame takes it, and Naomi lets it.
A woman stood at a bodega window at night, turned away from you, lit by the cold white spill of the fridges inside. Her skin holds the warm end of the picture. Everything above her head has gone off like a firework – magenta, cobalt, gold, emerald, brushed loose and fast.
What the missing face is doing
Because you can’t read her, you fill her in. That’s the whole move. Anyone who has stood outside a lit window late, hungry, deciding, is standing right there. Look at where the colour starts: not floating behind her, not framing her like wallpaper. It grows straight out of her hair and shoulders. In Naomi’s work the colour is always the person, never the decoration – she paints people as weather and refuses to make them pose for you.
The ground behind is flat and simple, two colours and one bit of city. She keeps it quiet so the bloom hits harder. Charlotte, one of our critics, put it well: “The explosion of color from the profile creates an irresistible visual impact.”
Once it’s up
It runs warm and loud in the best way. A first apartment stops looking temporary. Morning light keeps the outline crisp; by evening the bloom is the brightest thing in the room. People ask about her. You will not have an answer, and that’s the fun part.
Sizes, price, done
A high quality print of a digital artwork on museum-grade matte paper – smooth and non-reflective, so a lamp or a window opposite gives you the picture back instead of a glare. Printed edge to edge, no white border, so the colour runs right to the paper’s edge whether you slide it into a frame you already own or pin it up bare.
Landscape. 14×11 at $29, 20×16 (about 51 x 41 cm) at $49, 24×18 at $69. It’s made for you when you order, so give it up to ten business days plus delivery, and shipping in the continental US is free.
One honest thing
This picture does not whisper. If your room is all soft neutrals and you want it to stay that way, she’ll fight you.
If you want the wall to feel braver than it does now, take her home. Or go see the rest of Naomi’s blooms first – and follow her, so the next one lands in front of you before it lands anywhere else.
One is a piece. Two is a set. Three is a collection.
Almost nobody stops at one. A second work by the same hand turns a wall into a pairing. A third turns it into something you chose rather than something you bought. There are 6 other works by Naomi Brooks available.
Tile Rising Ochre – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download$19
Weather Becoming Hers – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print Price range: $129 through $229
Tower Blooming Magenta – Naomi Brooks | Digital Download$19
Stride Blooming Cobalt – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print Price range: $29 through $69
Page Turning Quiet – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print Price range: $129 through $229
Wind Pulling Everything East – Naomi Brooks | Fine Art Print Price range: $129 through $229
