P O R T F O L I O II
The Way Out
We tell ourselves we are trapped. We are not. The exits were always there. We just stopped looking for them.
The Way Out imagines nature not as somewhere distant, but as something waiting quietly behind the walls we built against it: blooming through the office partition, flooding the emergency exit at the back of the bus, glowing beyond the arcade’s EXIT sign. The paintings are not about abandoning modern life, but about recognizing that another world has been pressing against it all along. Escape here is not destruction. It is remembrance.
The door was never locked.
The Break
OIL ON PANEL | 24×30
An office designed for repetition: fluorescent light, grey partitions, endless screens asking for another restart. Yet at the center of the room, nature appears without permission, alive, luminous, impossible to ignore. This painting is about the strange moment when the life you buried beneath routine begins to press back through the walls. The realization that what you were searching for was never somewhere else. It was waiting beneath the surface the entire time.
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COMING-UP JUNE 13th
OIL ON CANVAS | 24×30
Continue? Y/N explores the strange comfort of artificial worlds and the quiet realization that another life may exist beyond them. The painting is less about rejecting nostalgia than understanding why people retreat into it in the first place. The arcade becomes a space between exhaustion and possibility, where the question is no longer whether an exit exists, but whether we are willing to take it.
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OIL ON PANEL | 14×18
Between Stops explores the strange space between movement and arrival, routine and choice. The school bus becomes a symbol of inherited direction of lives moving forward along paths chosen long before we understood them. At the far end, something living appears beyond the emergency exit, suggesting that another route has always existed quietly beside the one we were taught to follow.
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Containment Breach
OIL ON CANVAS | 24×30
$950
A laboratory designed for containment, order, and control becomes interrupted by something living. Nature does not force its way in violently. It simply finds the seam, the small failure in the system, and quietly begins to return. Containment Breach is about the illusion that life can be fully controlled, separated, or sterilized. Some things remain older and stronger than the structures built to contain them.