Honey Collector (Lost in Thought)

Suspended in a turquoise, tide-like field, the figure emerges less as portrait than as a memory eroded and reformed by water—her closed eyes and softened contours suggesting a retreat into interior silence. The palette of sea-greens and oxidized earth tones, scored with granular textures and scraped passages, lets light feel particulate, as if drifting through silt and thought at once. Around her, faint fish-like forms and scattered marks function as quiet witnesses, turning the surrounding space into an emotional aquarium where intimacy and distance coexist. The work reads as a meditation on vulnerability: a body held by the current, yet protected by the very layers that obscure it.