She Holds the Light She Cannot Keep

Oil on linen · 90 × 170 cm

A face surfaces from a churning ground of cadmium and rose, half-dissolved, half-present — the gaze steady even as the surrounding form threatens to give way. Paint is worked and reworked into the weave of the linen, building a surface that reads as both flesh and erosion. Memory made material: the image insists on being seen before it is lost.