Water Series 2 (Dog Swimming with a Red Ring)

An expanse of chlorinated turquoise becomes a quiet psychological landscape, its rippling lattice of light both soothing and indifferent. Near the lower edge, the dark, intent animal head breaks the surface like a concentrated thought emerging from a field of calm, while the distant pink ring—weightless, almost toy-like—floats as a fragile promise of rescue or a symbol of casual leisure. The composition’s vast negative space stretches the interval between these two presences into a narrative of isolation and longing, where survival feels less dramatic than eerily suspended. In this measured stillness, the pool reads as a modern ocean: beautiful, controlled, and faintly uncanny.