Saxophone

Dimension

65 x 50 cm

Date: 09/08/2025

Materials used

oil and tufting

First day.
I advance, and already I feel their fangs.
Dozens of heads stare at me, icy eyes, ready to devour me.
Each gaze weighs like a blade on my skin.

The silence is violent.
They want my first notes like they want blood.
And I, I tremble.
I'm scared, I'm scared.

But to retreat is to die.
So I take it.
I have no escape, no other chance.
I was born for this arena, for this hungry audience.

I clench my fingers, I tear out the sound.
A note, raw, sharp.
Then another, like a punch.
Each vibration cleaves the air, pushes back fear, cleaves the pack.

And suddenly, everything shifts.
The hall is no longer a courtroom: it's my battlefield.
The predators. Me, the prey turned beast.

I play as if each chord could save my life.
And in their eyes, at last, I read something else:
Respect.