Baboon

Baboon

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Baboon
Technique: Micron pen on paper (pointillism and hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 52 cm × 72 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2024
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"There are eyes that don’t just look — they watch. There are presences that don’t impose — they simply exist. Here, silence has teeth."

Baboon is a plunge into a primitive gaze — raw, direct, inescapable.

Drawn point by point with Micron pen on paper, this portrait crosses the boundary between figure and presence. It is not merely a depiction of an animal: it is a summoning of its spirit, its ancestral vigilance, its untamed strength.

The piece impresses with its obsessively precise technique, where each dot becomes part of a skin, a memory, a tension. The frontal composition, almost sacred, forces the viewer to hold its gaze — as if it were the baboon watching us.

More than a portrait, Baboon is an inverted mirror: it asks who we are, once stripped of our human mask.