In "Black Magic Woman II", we encounter more than the image of a woman we step into the portrait of an inner world.
 
The gaze that meets us is neither challenging nor inviting  it simply exists. Awake. Unfiltered. Uncompromising. It does not ask for permission; it simply is. What Alexander Palacios captures here is not just a face, but a state of being: a space between strength, vulnerability, and timelessness.
 
The choice of black and white is more than an aesthetic decision. It removes everything unnecessary. No color to distract. No decoration to soften. Only light and shadow. Presence and absence. Intimacy and distance.
 
And it is precisely this reduction that creates depth. We look into a face  and yet it feels like a mirror. This is not about “her.” It is about what she stirs in us.
 
Palacios' work is deeply rooted in his fascination with the human being  not just as a figure, but as history, as resonance, as potential. Black Magic Woman II tells no loud stories.
 
But it lingers.
She lingers in the room.
She lingers in the mind.
And perhaps most of all she lingers in the heart.
 
200x160cm Masterpiece.
 
Signed
Created 2016
© Alexander Palacios