Unspoken, Unhealed

by Jacky Luna

This series signals Luna’s shift from play to reckoning. Still 14, she grappled with an unspoken bond to her father, translating absence into material. Oil-stick density, watercolor bleed, and thin scuffel abrasions build layered fields of grief and longing. Made as private survival rather than public art, these canvases later caught the eye of the PATRONATUS Fine Art Society at her age 17, revealing a mature, singular vocabulary. Each surface is both wound and release, inviting viewers into the hush of withheld words.