INSPIRATION

This portrait reflects the ever-shifting nature of identity. Personhood is not fixed; it exists in a state of constant formation and dissolution, shaped by memory, environment, and emotion. The work captures this dynamism through imagery and materiality, blending the physical with the ephemeral.

At its base, real onion skins form appliquéd flowers—grounded, tactile, and organic. Above, the figure of a woman, rendered in acrylic, begins to dissolve at the edges, her profile fragmenting into painterly slashes of color, like digital pixels breaking apart.

 
Her background is fully abstract: a cascade of chromatic gestures that suggests not just a loss of form, but a transformation into something new. In this interplay between realism and abstraction, the painting explores how we hold ourselves together—and, just as often, let ourselves become something else.