She Waits Outside Her Own Life
Private collection
This painting has joined a private collection. A scene in the same spirit can be painted on commission.
“Her shift is over and she has not left. Still in uniform, cup in hand, sitting in the dry grass, she watches the lit room where she spends her days as if it were a film in which she is not the heroine. The neon spills over the wet tarmac, a man in a suit stands with his back to us near a car, and she stays there, outside, on the wrong side of the glass. What I paint is the silent gap between who we are and who we would like to be, that moment when we watch ourselves from afar without knowing whether we are waiting for someone, or waiting to become someone. Some evenings, other people’s light seems warmer than our own.”
— Le Yack
- Technique
- oil on stretched canvas
- Size
- 80 × 80 cm (square)
- Year
- 2026
- Signature
- on the front, lower right — Le Yack; on the back: title, year, signature, inventory number
- Support
- pure linen canvas, hand-stretched, solid wood stretcher
- Finish
- protective matt varnish, applied by hand
- Condition
- original work, one of a kind
In the same setting · The city
All his works
Alexandre Pelletier, known as Le Yack, paints in oil in Orléans. A Fine Arts graduate, he spent nearly thirty years composing images as an art director before returning to the canvas.
