Rural Life 2 (Eye of the Universe)

A copper-toned disc hovers like an embered sun within a field of bruised maroons and soot-black, its granular surface suggesting matter compacted by time rather than merely painted. The concentric void at its center and the smaller satellite dot establish a quiet orbital drama—attention circling absence, gravity defined by what cannot be touched. Scored vertical abrasions read as scars or rainfall, interrupting the stillness with memory and erosion, so the work becomes both celestial diagram and intimate meditation on endurance. Light seems to seep from within the pigment, turning the surrounding darkness into a chamber where presence and disappearance continually exchange roles.