Afloat (A Love Story Unfolds)

This collage-like tableau stages desire as a teetering architecture: a reclining figure becomes both pedestal and dreamer while a snail, crowned in comic regality, advances with surreal deliberation toward a pulsing heart that bluntly declares “I Love You.” Crisp outlines and saturated blocks of yellows, cobalt, and black fracture the space into competing realms—pop iconography, geometric scaffolds, and soft flesh—suggesting how intimacy is assembled from symbols as much as from sensation. The slow spiral of the shell counters the urgency of the message, turning romance into an allegory of time: devotion as patient accretion, moving through a noisy, manufactured world toward something tender yet strangely commodified.