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Deep Down, 2025
Oil on canvas
In “Deep Down” spectral figures attempt a desperate escape not from a physical prison, but from the inescapable dimension of consciousness itself. Rendered in an ethereal, phosphorescent glow, they claw and push against the suffocating blackness of an internal void. Their forms are fluid and semi-transparent, suggesting they are losing their very substance in this struggle. The painting explores a profound paradox: what if the prison is not an external force, but the self? The figures are locked within their own awareness, tormented by a reality from which there is no physical exit. Their reaching hands grasp at nothing, emphasizing a deep metaphysical isolation. This is not just a struggle for freedom, but a rebellion against the condition of being, a desire to break free from the mind’s relentless inner world and dissolve back into a state of unburdened non-existence. The work questions whether true escape is ever possible when the prison is woven into our very being.
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