Les Non-Dits (THE UNSAID) II by Faith Gbadero Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 30 x 24 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 closed-eyed figure holds a flowering stem across his bare chest, while a butterfly hovers nearby. By setting the body’s modeled weight against simplified mountains and abundant blossoms, the painting frames tenderness as a present condition rather than a reward after hardship. Gbadero’s statement identifies identity, connection, memory, and becoming as recurring concerns. Here, the figure’s inward expression and protective grip give those broad themes a specific bodily form.The diagonal stem links hand, heart, face, and mountain. Its small flowers extend behind the head, making the landscape seem to carry an interior state without fixing that state as grief, peace, or endurance.Catalogued as oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches, the painting combines gradual modeling in the skin with flatter, sharply separated landscape shapes. Oil accommodates both approaches, sharpening the contrast between bodily presence and emblematic setting.The catalogue text states, “Men deserve flowers too,” especially during struggle and becoming. Encountered through that intention, the work makes care for men visible before resolution, using flowers not as memorial tribute but as present-tense recognition. 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.
