Alone 3

This watercolor suspends an old lantern in a field of breathing whites and bruised blues, allowing the object to feel less like a tool and more like a keeper of memory. The composition hinges on a stark dialogue between a pale, open void and a dense, nightlike wall, where wet washes and granulated pigment suggest time’s corrosion and the seep of weather into metal. By withholding a literal flame yet modeling the glass with a tender glow, the artist turns illumination into an inward condition—quiet endurance held against encroaching shadow.