Untitled 5 (Vermillion Ascent)

A field of incandescent orange presses in like heat and memory, against which a vertical, ash-gray column emerges as both figure and fracture—an uncertain body suspended between presence and erasure. The scraped, weathered surfaces and smudged blacks suggest layers of time, as though the image has been repeatedly lifted, resisted, and re-inscribed, leaving behind a residue of lived experience. A thin seam of pale light cleaves the center, not as revelation but as a vulnerable passage, hinting at endurance within compression and the quiet insistence of form amid surrounding intensity.