Medium: Acrylics and pastel on canvas Size: 60 × 60 × 2 cm Year: 2026 Signed, titled & ready to hang ___ Held in Rubato I In music, rubato means stolen time. It is the freedom to breathe outside the rhythm. The moment when a melody stretches or rushes certain notes according to feeling, rather than strict timing. What if life could be lived the same way? What if not every moment needed to move at the same speed as everyone else? Held in Rubato is about exactly that – the permission to adjust the pace of life when something matters. To linger where meaning is found. To move forward when the time feels right. Trusting an inner rhythm over an external one. Just as a musician shapes time to bring greater expression to a melody, a meaningful life is not measured by how correctly it is lived – but by how deeply it is felt.

Artist Name

Auguste Lu

Ships From

Hamamatsu, Japan