Untitled 21 (Fish Out of Water)

Suspended in a bruised violet-to-amber sky, the oversized fish becomes an improbable dirigible—its checkerboard back and finely stippled belly turning nature into a meticulously engineered dream. Taut, filament-like rigging drops to a fragile gondola where a lone figure rides, a quiet emblem of human smallness beneath an imagination that is both shelter and captor. The warm gradient atmosphere softens the scene into reverie, yet the distant, minimal cityline anchors the fantasy in lived reality, suggesting escape not as departure but as a delicate negotiation between gravity, longing, and control.