INSPIRATION

Set within a tenebrist interior, the figure holds a pomegranate as a symbol of life, temptation, and inevitable decay, referencing Ibn Sirin’s postulate on dreams, while the clock and fading flowers reinforce the passage of time.
 
Drawing from the visual language of Dutch Golden Age vanitas, the work places Black identity at the centre of a meditation on impermanence, contemplation, the brief interval between life and death, and the weight of free will and choice.