Collection 2024

Split Embers

This collection captures the volatile edge where the self fractures and refuses to disappear. Each figure stands between forces—between fire and ash, silence and confrontation. The compositions are cleaved by streaks of black, red, and gold; their bodies partially veiled, their faces split or shadowed. Though the figures remain still, the surrounding space crackles with tension—like a surface struck by lightning, or a landscape unsettled by memory.

Split Embers speaks to the experience of holding rupture from within. These works can be read as reflections on internal exile, the cost of forced identity, and the fragmenting impact of witnessing prolonged violence. The dual bodies—mirrored, shadowed, or layered—suggest a quiet dialogue between the personal and collective self, between who we are privately and how we are seen. This doubling becomes a language of survival in fractured times.

The figures do not scream. Their silence is not emptiness—it is density. In these works, color becomes wound, shadow becomes voice, and fracture becomes form. The skin bears marks that the world often refuses to name—bruises of erasure, seams of resistance, quiet thresholds of transformation.

This series does not offer resolution. It offers presence. It invites us to stand at the site of division—not to mend it, but to recognize it as sacred. This is where the embers still glow. This is where identity remakes itself in the flicker between silence and fire.