Within The Home (Sanctuary: A Figurative Abstraction in Red and Green)

Coiled within a crude, shelter-like silhouette, the creature’s serpentine body becomes a living glyph—at once protective and trapped—its looping curve reading like a private alphabet of instinct. The heated orange ground presses forward with visceral urgency, while the acid green boundary functions as a threshold, framing the figure as something contained, observed, and perhaps domesticated. Flecks and internal markings suggest memory or scarification, turning the animal form into a map of accumulated encounters, where tenderness and threat occupy the same continuous line.