Les Non-Dits (The Unsaid) III by Faith Gbadero Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 23 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 pale flower crosses the sitter’s eye, making tenderness function as both a sign of care and a form of concealment within an otherwise direct portrait. Gbadero states that his practice addresses identity, connection and becoming through restrained compositions and symbolic forms. In this work, those concerns are condensed into the sitter’s single, carefully placed gesture.In the supplied image, the frontal figure holds a long stem against his face while his other arm closes across his body. One eye remains visible; the bloom covers the other, complicating the contrast between direct gaze and guarded posture.The documented oil-on-canvas medium supports broad, simplified hills alongside closer modelling of the face, hands and pale blue shirt. The intense red bow tie fixes attention at the body’s centre, balancing the small white flower above it.Catalogued as a 2026 painting from The Things We Don’t Say Out Loud series, it gives masculinity an intentionally unresolved vocabulary of formal dress, flowers and bodily restraint. The tension between recognition and hiding provides a concrete reason to encounter it within collections examining contemporary portraiture and gender. 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.
