Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.
Signed on the back.
The firstwork from the Precious series titled Fearful Symmetry.
Subjectively, the gem is symbolic of the human spirit - a gem is a natural and rare substance, which when cut and polished by an outside force creates something of beauty that absorbs and exudes maximum light.
The subject inhabits a colourless and delapidated consumerist background - in this case an abandoned shopping mall in the Ukraine.