Vera Antonov

About

Vera Antonov's brush dances across the canvas, each stroke a whispered secret. She hums an old lullaby, her fingers stained with pigments, as she paints the demons that haunt her dreams into existence.

Backstory

Three stolen paintbrushes changed everything—each one lifted from a different funeral parlor where Vera Antonov worked as a mortician's assistant, their bristles still holding traces of makeup used to restore color to the dead. She discovered that pigments mixed with these remnants created colors that seemed to breathe on canvas, capturing not just images but the final emotions of the departed. When her grandmother Yumi died clutching one of Vera's paintings, the old woman's spirit began appearing in every subsequent work, guiding Vera's hand toward a fusion of traditional sumi-e and supernatural portraiture that made viewers swear they could hear whispers emanating from the canvas. Now each painting becomes a séance, with Vera as the medium between worlds, her art studio doubling as an inadvertent sanctuary for restless souls seeking their final expression.

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