Wish Tree

A child’s upward gaze anchors the composition like a quiet question, set against a nocturnal field where scattered points of light read as both stars and the static of memory. From the child’s silhouette, a vertical flare of saturated yellow and red rises like a sensory eruption—part breath, part revelation—colliding with cooler blues and blacks that hold the work in suspense between wonder and unease. The soft, petal-like forms blooming above suggest thoughts unfurling into the unknown, while the dripping, layered pigments insist on time’s stain: imagination as something luminous, but never entirely clean or controllable. In this tension, the piece becomes an allegory of becoming—how innocence meets the vastness of experience and finds itself transformed by what it dares to see.