Les Non-Dits (THE UNSAID) I by Faith Gbadero Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 24 x 30 in Year: 2026 Price: $2200.00 USD Status: available From The Things We Don’t Say Out Loud Series Men deserve flowers too not just after the struggle but in the middle of it while becoming is still happening There are parts of us we learned to keep quiet feelings we buried moments we carried without help This is for the weight that doesn’t have words for the strength that looks like silence for the softness we were told to hide Men deserve flowers too not just after the struggle but in the middle of it while becoming is still happening Why collect this work?A frontal figure with closed eyes occupies nearly the full height of the painting, while flowers rise beside his head, turning a conventional sign of tribute into a presence within ongoing life. Gbadero describes his practice as addressing identity, connection, memory, and becoming through restrained symbolic forms. Here, that aim is concentrated in the pairing of a monumental body with a modest cluster of blooms.The photograph shows the figure centered against layered mountain-like silhouettes. His dark, carefully modeled torso contrasts with the flatter landscape and crisp flowers, placing bodily vulnerability between weight and growth rather than illustrating a single narrative.The documented oil-on-canvas medium permits gradual tonal modeling across the face and chest, while the simplified background and sharply separated plant forms keep the composition legible at a glance.The catalogue text links the work to feelings men are taught to withhold. Encountering this painting makes it possible to examine how portraiture can represent masculine tenderness without replacing reserve with spectacle. About the ArtistFaith Gbadero Faith Gbadero is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ogbomoso, NG. Nationality: Nigerian My art is driven by a desire to understand and express the human experience through layered narratives of identity, connection, memory, and becoming.
