Painted in the early years of Sara Léger’s practice, Midnight Maiko carries the glow of a first step into oils. Deep blues and near-black tones feel like standing in Tokyo’s evening lights, while subtle reds and metallic traces suggest movement in the shadows. Salvaged phone parts are embedded into the surface, adding a quiet industrial edge to an otherwise dreamlike composition. Still abstract but more refined than Geisha, the figure emerges slowly, a modern maiko formed from intuition and experiment.

Artist’s Note

This was my first real leap into oil paint—messy, unpredictable, and alive. I started with darkness and let the city lights build themselves. Bits of a discarded phone found their way in, a reminder that nothing is ever just one thing. Like Geisha Woman Of Art before it, Midnight Maiko began as pure instinct and ended as something I didn’t know I was ready to paint until it appeared.