"The Noise Beyond the Silence"

A young woman’s face, close-up, eyes gently closed. She’s surrounded by small birds — two fly around her head, one sits on her shoulder, as if shouting something into her ear. But she doesn’t react. Her expression is serious, deep — not distracted, not defensive. She is fully within.

Her dark blue hair flows into the deep indigo and splashes of the background — a sea of thought, a space of silence. The birds, the splashes, the movement — they are the world’s noise. But she has tuned into something else — her inner stillness.

This painting is about calm amidst chaos, the strength of introspection, and the power of listening only to what truly matters. It’s about the voice inside that cannot be silenced by shouting outside.

"The Noise Beyond the Silence"

by Veranika Khvorashch

A bird on her shoulder, screaming aloud,
Two more in the air, wings slashing the cloud.
But she doesn’t hear — she stays in the stream
Of silence and warmth, of thought and of dream.

Her hair like the dusk, her mind like the sea,
Closed eyes not in sorrow, but deep clarity.
The world may be shouting in splashes and light,
She listens to stillness. And stillness feels right.

The colors explode, the moment is loud —
Brushstrokes like thunder, chaotic and proud.
But she is the stone beneath all the sound —
Hearing forever, where silence is found.