Abonded 2 (The Derelict)

A solitary wooden boat rests in the foreground like a remembered vessel, its tactile planks and muted reds anchoring the eye against a vast, weathered field of blue-green atmosphere. Across the upper register, bead-like lights hover in a measured line, suggesting distant harbor signals or coded constellations that turn the seascape into a quiet ledger of navigation and time. Scrawled letters, numbers, and diagrammatic marks drift through the surface like palimpsest—half erased, half insisted—so that the painting reads as both place and psyche, where departure, loss, and direction are held in suspension. The composition balances the intimacy of craft with the abstraction of map and memory, letting emptiness feel less like absence than a charged, waiting space.