Survival (A New Normal**)

In a landscape of diluted pastels and drifting bands of color, two masked figures appear as quiet witnesses to a shoreline that feels both tender and wounded. The composition lets the earth and water blur into one another, so that space reads like memory—unstable, shifting, and stained with the residue of what has passed through it. The dark, scratch-like thicket at the left presses against the gentler washes, introducing a nervous texture that turns the scene into an allegory of care: human presence is small, yet urgently responsible. Light here is not celebratory; it is a thin, persistent illumination that asks what it means to inhabit a world we are still learning how to mend.