- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas
- Size
- 59.8 × 35.8 in · 152 × 91 cm
The doorway stood ajar, beckoning him back to where innocence ends. Years peeled away like fading paint, baring moments that molded without warning. Here was an passage into curiosities and first tastes of passion, gleaned without thought for seeds that may take root.
This diptych seeks to capture that liminal space between knowing and unknowing, where experience shifts perspective with each new page turned. It is a reflection on choices made without wisdom of their wakes, and how single slivers of time may etch their scenes deep as canyons, for good and ill.
Through layered color speaking without words, it offers passage into a private genesis whose impressions linger past comprehension. If in these unfolding vignettes, an sense of recognizing life's recurrent melodies takes form, then meaning emerges where intent was absent. For are we not all voyagers launched too soon, navigating by hopes grasp exceeds? And do not passages viewed through maturer eyes reveal more of the traveller than trails themselves? It is enough, perhaps, that each new door finds us readier.