Still Holding

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60 x 90 cmMixed media (acrylic, inks, water-soluble pigment blocks, texture paste) on canvas2025 This painting has bright parts and dark, soft areas and heavily textured ones. Some transitions are smooth and subtle, others are bold and abrupt. There’s a delicate, almost transparent form at the center—yet it feels solid. It started off as something much more quiet and mysterious—soft tones, a minimal shape, something you could almost miss. But as I kept coming back to it over months, it shifted. The colors got louder. Edges became clearer. That subtle shimmer turned into something closer to a spotlight. At one point I even thought it was getting too polished or too cartoonish—but then I realized that contrast was part of the point. Sometimes we’re not just one thing. We’re not just light or dark, delicate or resilient. We’re a mix of contradictions that somehow hold together. That’s what this painting became about. A moment of tension that doesn’t break. A form that looks like it could vanish, but doesn’t. Still here. Still holding. Show more