I wanted to capture a very fleeting moment — a date between a cockatoo and a blooming Cereus peruvianus flower.
This flower is a wonder of its own — large and fragrant, it opens only for a single night. By sunrise, it closes forever. In that short time, it might be pollinated, and then it turns into a sweet Peruvian apple fruit, soft and delicate like a memory.
In my painting, the cockatoo meets the flower in that exact moment — when the bloom is at its peak. The air carries the fragrance of something both alive and vanishing. The bird seems to know it too. When the night ends, the smell of the flower will stay within his feathers — a quiet reminder of this brief unity.
Mixed technique on linen canvas, 95 × 70 cm.
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