TOOK A BOAT ON SUNDAY NIGHT: BUT SHE WASN'T IN THE MOOD. EVEN THOUGH THE LOVE BALLS WERE HOVERING OVER THE POND / Mongi Higgs

• Dimensions: 350 x 180 cm
• Medium: Acrylic, spray and oil sticks on canvas
• Ready to hang: yes
• Signature: Back, also signed certificate
• Year: 2025

In Oberschweinbach, people still remember Gitti. Back in the day, they called her “Miss Fire Department Festival”—platinum blonde, quick-witted, with a look as smooth as freshly ironed silk. The men kept their distance; the women, even more so. And then she married Kosef—because he was strong, quiet, and dependable. Not a poet, but solid. Three decades later, Gitti was still there—but she wasn’t the same anymore. Her beauty was now angular, her gaze sharper than the neighbor’s sheet cake. She wore bright red lipstick in the morning and saw right through anyone who spoke to her of “modesty.” On a warm, humid August evening, Josef got into the rowboat. He’d seen the light over the pond—the red orbs that sometimes hovered above the water. An old symbol of love, they said. Of hope. So he asked her to come along. Gitti got in. No smile, no romance. She knew what this was: a last-ditch attempt to salvage their closeness. But while he was still rowing, her mind was already elsewhere—on a train platform, heading toward the city, toward her later life, toward the stage. Not for him. For herself. “Josf,” she said at last. “You want me. But you don’t want to know who I am. And I don’t want to stay just because no one else will.” The next morning she was gone. No message, no explanation. Just lipstick on the glass and the boat, lying askew on the shore. Ever since, the saying in the village has been: If a woman stays silent too long, eventually she’ll speak only with her feet. And red spheres over the pond? They don’t mean anything anymore—if they ever did.

• Finish: Acryllack
• Shipping: On stretcher frame, packed in appropriate protective shipping packaging
• Delivery times: 8–14 business days (depending on size, customs procedures, etc.)
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