Painting by Yuliia Didevych

“Among the Birds” is a painting about silence, inner freedom, and feminine presence beyond time. The nude female figure is depicted not as an object, but as a state — calm, focused, and almost sacred. Her body appears light and vulnerable, yet at the same time strong and deeply rooted within itself. The birds nearby are not decorative elements, but symbols of thoughts, instincts, and inner voices. They remain inside cages, suspended between freedom and limitation, between the desire to fly and the need to stay. The woman, however, exists outside the cages. She is among the birds, but not confined with them — she has already reached a space where freedom is an inner choice. The fan in her hands becomes a gesture of protection and ritual, a delicate boundary between openness and detachment. The entire scene is immersed in half-darkness, where the light of the body and the vivid accents of the birds create a dreamlike, almost remembered atmosphere.