I approached this canvas as a record of a physical struggle—a conversation between the weight of the oil and the speed of my own hand. Unlike my more structured compositions, this piece is about the raw intersection of light and collision. I layered the deep blues and sharp blacks to create a sense of infinite depth, then used a palette knife and heavy brushes to tear through that space with aggressive strokes of ochre, cream, and sudden flares of orange.
For me, this painting represents the internal friction we all feel when trying to find clarity amidst noise. It isn’t meant to be “solved” or to look like a specific object; it is meant to be felt as a sudden rush of air or a crashing wave. Every smudge and thick impasto ridge is a deliberate mark of resistance against the stillness of the blank canvas.
