Existence 1 (Growth and Decay**)

Suspended in a deep, aqueous field of blue, the work assembles agrarian emblems—sunflower, sickle, plough, and sprouting plant—like memory-fragments held in careful balance between labor and lyricism. The flattened perspective and generous negative space turn these tools into quiet icons, while the sunflower’s radiant disc and the small, hovering butterfly introduce a tender counterpoint to the weight of cultivation. Roots exposed beneath the planter suggest an unseen network of inheritance and dependence, implying that what appears orderly above is sustained by a more intricate, vulnerable life below. In this poised stillness, the painting reads as a meditation on how nurture, work, and transformation coexist—each gesture of growth shadowed by the instruments that shape it.