Escaping Birth, 2021

This work holds the liminal threshold between worlds—that first gasping breath where memory dissolves into soft washes of pastel pink and baby blue, and existence itself feels like something you’re not sure you chose. The heavily textured surface captures the blur of emergence: comfort and terror inseparable, the visceral confusion of leaving one realm for another, the primal longing to return to a place that felt more like home than anywhere you’ll ever know again. Through layered veils of translucent color and gestural disruption, the painting maps that initial moment of consciousness—where you are born not into clarity, but into beautiful, overwhelming uncertainty. This is the feeling before language, before understanding: pure sensation translated into pigment, the eternal question of whether we escape into life or from something we’ve been searching for ever since.

Note: This painting has a 2-inch depth, giving it a more substantial profile than most pieces. Please review the photos to see its depth and dimension.