Untitled 20 (A Fishy Surprise)

Suspended in a velvety field of deep blues, the luminous fish drifts like a living fragment of light, its saturated body and soft yellow fins asserting a quiet, elegiac presence against an atmosphere that feels both aquatic and dreamlike. The composition stages a delicate tension between innocence and intrusion: the creature’s calm, forward glide is counterweighted by the ghostly suggestion of human apparatus at the edge, a reminder of how fragile reverie becomes when the manufactured world enters the sea’s hush. Above, pale birds skim the upper register like distant thoughts, widening the space into a layered meditation on passage, vulnerability, and the tenuous boundary between nature’s lyricism and our restless reach.