Cunning

Cunning

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Cunning
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:

"Cunning doesn't chase the prey — it waits for the exact moment when reality falters."

Cunning is a portrait in fragments — and yet, a complete narrative.

With its snout cropped and gaze in sharp focus, this fox does not present itself — it peers. It hovers between seen and hidden, between gesture and intention. The obsessively precise technique of the Micron pen sculpts the fur with micro-decisions — each point and each line a strand in an invisible web of natural vigilance.

The gaze does not seek contact, but context. Behind that ever-watchful eye lies something more — perhaps a memory, perhaps a plan. Light and shadow do not compete; they dance in silence. The white is a pause, the black is intelligence.

This is not a work that screams “beauty” — it reveals it, in the space between what is shown and what is sensed.