Cutting (Growth and Transformation)

Rendered in a muted, earthen palette, the image stages a quiet ritual where the domestic act of cutting an onion becomes an allegory of origin—roots exposed, then reimagined as a flowering head above the body. The composition splits the figure between grounded labor and an inward, visionary space, as if the same substance that stings the eyes also germinates insight. Speckled textures and spare linework create a sense of dust and time, suggesting that transformation is less an epiphany than a patient, bodily process of turning what is buried into what can bloom.