Untitled 13 (The Cityscape Koi)

A monumental koi glides through a nocturnal, ink-splattered sky, its lacquered reds and opalescent greens rendered with an almost ceremonial precision that turns the creature into a hovering emblem of resilience. Below, a small fishbowl—an island of domestic clarity—floats above a simplified city, collapsing scales of nature and metropolis into one surreal stage where the “contained” and the “uncontainable” quietly trade places. The faint, spectral rider perched atop the koi reads like a fragile human desire to steer what is ultimately vast and instinctual, while the surrounding negative space deepens the sense of isolation, wonder, and latent unease. The work becomes a meditation on modern life’s paradox: we build glass boundaries for comfort even as we dream of impossible freedom passing just overhead.