Culvert (Into the Unknown)

This brooding, semi-abstract landscape stages nature as a threshold—dense, dark greens and bruised violets compress the space while a narrow run of water opens a hesitant corridor into depth. Light arrives not as clarity but as a wound of yellow and white, catching on rough, tactile brushwork and turning foliage into flickers of presence, as if the forest is remembering itself in fragments. The composition’s downward pull toward the stream suggests a quiet passage or cleansing, yet the surrounding shadows insist on secrecy, making the scene feel less like a place observed than an interior state traversed.