Who I Am

This painting unfurls like a tender, dreamlike map where the city becomes a body—streets and blocks stitched into soft pink atmospheres, as if memory itself were the terrain. A charcoal elephant stands at the edge of a stark, hazard-striped boundary, an emblem of ancient weight and migratory wisdom confronting the engineered partitions of modern life. Opposite, an exposed heart blossoms into flowers, turning vulnerability into cultivation, while the looping ribbons of contour-lines read as breath or river, insisting that life’s currents persist beneath the rigid grid. The composition’s gentle pastels are punctured by warning diagonals and dense shadow, creating a quiet tension between care and control, between what grows and what is contained.