Three child figures: an orange blouse, a brown shirt, a pink dress. But looking at the painting, we feel not the joy of childhood but the hidden tension within it. Eyes are never innocent in Fitoloğlu's portraits; each one remembers, or tries to remember, something. Behind them a table or pile of objects, a face silhouette in the lower left — this is a canvas where not a single moment but multiple memories overlap. The turquoise ground is like the colour of 'home' in collective childhood memory. The artist cuts the figures' coats and hair with strong black lines; this decisive contour conflicts with the painting's soft colour zones and becomes the main source of tension in the work.
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