Boat 4 (Tide's Retreat)

In this muted shoreline tableau, the boats rest as if caught between duties—beached on a tide-worn ground that reads like memory, scratched and stained by time. A veil of grey light compresses sea and sky into a single quiet breath, while the softened horizon dissolves certainty and turns distance into contemplation. Against this hush, the restrained blues and greens of the hulls become small declarations of endurance, their angled placement and tethering lines suggesting lives temporarily paused yet never unmoored. The work speaks less of maritime industry than of waiting itself—of labor, weather, and solitude held in suspension.