Reflection (Cityscape Dreams**)

This painting stages an urban memory in suspension: a dense, scraped architecture of marks and half-erased structures floats within a dusk-like field, as if the city is being recalled rather than observed. Warm ember tones press against cool teal and violet passages, creating a charged chiaroscuro where light feels mined from within the surface rather than cast upon it. The fractured planes and incised lines suggest scaffolding, windows, and passageways, yet they refuse certainty—turning construction into contemplation and noise into a quiet, weathered resilience. Scattered flecks across the dark ground read like ash or distant lights, lending the scene a sense of aftermath and fragile continuity.