City Sprawl (Sailing Dreams)

This work folds an urban skyline into the fragile geometry of a paper boat, turning a childlike vessel into a carrier of metropolitan ambition and quiet precarity. Burnt ochres and soot-dark linework read like scorched memory, as if the city has been branded onto the paper’s skin—at once archival and impermanent. The sharp creases carve mountains of negative space that dwarf the buildings, suggesting how imagination can both shelter and endanger what we build, while the small flock overhead releases a breath of motion and escape from the craft’s heavy, grounded shadow.