Red City (Beneath the Surface)

This composition fractures the familiar into a tectonic collage of burnished ochres and heavy reds, where geometric planes seem to slide past one another like memories of rooms, streets, and figures pressed into a single surface. The abrupt crimson blocks punctuate the work as alarms or emphatic pauses, forcing the eye to ricochet between translucent washes and charcoal-like scaffolding that suggests architecture without granting it stability. Light behaves less as illumination than as abrasion—golden passages feel scraped open, exposing a heat beneath the skin of the painting and lending the scene a restless, urban-temporal pulse. In this contested space, structure and emotion negotiate: the painting becomes a map of inner city life, where intimacy, dislocation, and resilience coexist in the same layered terrain.