Nearby, Faraway

This drawing has been made with charcoal, graphite, and pastel on paper. I wanted to convey a sense of suspension with this portrait of an Italian teenager, called Renata. "The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train.
Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle. It is in you.” (M. DeJong)