Time Mural "Where Time Stands Still" by Queen of Two Diamonds

In the picnic room of Cernix, in the heart of Val d'Arly, street artist Queen of Two Diamonds projects a soft, dreamlike vision onto a wall transformed into an escape. She creates a refuge within the refuge, where her mural is anchored in the tranquility of a rest stop, between two descents.

A woman's face floats, detached from reality. Eyelids closed, suspended, she escapes the tumult. Her violet complexion, the artist's signature, frees her from any identity, from any temporal or geographical anchorage. A dreamer? An artist in search of herself? She is above all an invitation. To slow down. To see what usually eludes us. Her face calls neither for action nor performance. It invites abandon. A necessary letting go in the face of a constantly changing mountain.

At her side, a small yeti watches, fascinated. Huge gaze, discreet smile. Far from the wild monster of legend, it is a gentle, almost childlike creature. In Queen of Two Diamonds, the animal is never a simple companion: it is a mirror. Perhaps the incarnation of the child in us, the one who contemplates without judging.

Two figures respond to each other without a glance, connected by a breath of color. Between dream and awakening, they weave a silent dialogue where everything passes through the expression of one and the dream of the other. A subtle duality that she expresses even in her pseudonym. Born Bénédicte De Caro, she chose "Two Diamonds" as a reflection, a precious and multiple facet of her identity. At the crossroads of finesse and resilience, solidity and brilliance, she traces her path from galleries to the street, from exhibitions to monumental frescoes.

So she marks walls as others engrave skin. A precise line. Bold contours. Striking colors. Her work draws on the heritage of neo-traditionalism, a style derived from tattooing where line precedes color, where each form seems designed to last. But here, she softens her palette.

In this small mountain cabin where one can take a break, the Queen of Two Diamonds fresco resonates as a counterpoint to the world's urgency. It offers another interpretation of this little corner of the Alps: a living, moving space, where one can still dream.

Here, the mountain is no longer measured by exploits, but by what it awakens within us. A new world invites itself to the foot of the slopes of the Crest-Voland Cohennoz resort, offering a moment where, finally, the imagination can reclaim its rights.

Text credits: ©Be on the Crest.

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