Space Division (Lost in the Labyrinth)

This painting stages an architectural labyrinth as both monument and mechanism, its rusted, earthen planes carved into sharp compartments that cradle small human figures like thoughts caught in a mind’s circuitry. A cool, theatrical field of violet-blue casts the structure into relief, turning its shadow into a second, quieter maze that suggests the unseen weight of choices and histories. The crank protruding from the side implies that this complexity can be “operated,” yet the nested chambers and vanishing corridors hint at the futility of believing control is ever complete. In the tension between intimate bodies and impersonal geometry, the work becomes a meditation on confinement, agency, and the uneasy comfort of systems we build to contain our lives.