Leave Me Alone

In this quietly charged scene, a lone figure wades through tea-brown water, tending to the submerged bulk of a buffalo whose calm gaze breaks the surface like an island of trust. The composition hinges on a tender diagonal—human arm to animal head—while the surrounding greens collapse into shadow, allowing warm reflections to shimmer as a second, unstable world. Light is rationed rather than lavish, glancing off wet hide and ripples to suggest a ritual of care and survival where intimacy is forged not in comfort, but in the elemental patience of water. The painting holds the threshold between domestication and wilderness, rendering companionship as something negotiated in silence, weight, and slow-moving current.