A young woman in profile wears a golden-yellow jacket and a blue and white striped headwrap, her blonde hair pulled back in a long tail, as she blows a large translucent bubble of gum against a deep black background. The painting merges classical portraiture with playful contemporary irreverence, rendered in soft, luminous tones that make the bubble glow like a pearl suspended in darkness. For a modern gallery wall or a space celebrating wit and art history. A Baltic birch top with the artwork printed across it, made to order on steel legs in black or gold. The center of the room as an independent artist's work, not a flat-pack lookalike.