Psychosis

Year

2024

Medium

Ink on Paper

Dimensions

37.5 x 30 in

Price

$3,500

"This piece was born out of tension, not just between body and mind, a recurring theme in my work, but between me and the piece itself. Some artworks flow easily; this one didn’t. I left it, came back, got frustrated, came back again. It stayed with me, like an unresolved thought. In the end, it became one of the pieces I feel most connected to, precisely because of the fight it took to bring it to life. In the image, architecture stands in for the mind: precise, repetitive, rational. But repetition creates rhythm, and rhythm begins to feel bodily like a spine, a ribcage, a breath. The tree, wild and organic, represents the body, but it too follows a logic, with branches that echo neural paths or muscle memory. The point is not to separate the two, but to show how each contains the other: the body isn’t pure instinct, and the mind isn’t pure order. They mirror and clash and hold each other. That same duality shaped the process of making it. This wasn’t a comforting piece to draw, but it became a necessary one. It reminds me that some of the most meaningful work doesn’t emerge from clarity or ease, but from staying with the discomfort long enough to see what’s underneath. Like the body and the mind, some things don’t resolve they coexist."