Composition 12 (Fish and Bird)

This stylized fish, built from crisp geometric planes, glides through a constructed seascape where hard-edged rectangles and muted blues turn water into architecture. The restrained palette—ochres, slate, and deep brown—lets the patterned banding read like a ceremonial garment, elevating a simple creature into an emblem of memory and craft. Its wide, circular eye holds a quiet, almost human alertness, as if the painting is less about marine life than about presence: how an individual form asserts itself against the grids and partitions of modern space. The tension between flatness and illusion becomes the work’s pulse, suggesting a world where nature is not depicted, but carefully reassembled.