Original Painting | Against the tide | Crossing: 3.1 | 100 x 100 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth)

Original Painting | Against the tide | Crossing: 3.1 | 100 x 100 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth)Title: Against the tide Paradox: Silence aimed at yourself The Story I swam against a current in water so blue it looked like the sky had fallen. The rocks around me were enormous and indifferent. Nobody could see the fight. From the shore I looked like someone enjoying a swim. Inside I was holding everything every truth I could not say, every conflict I would not release. This painting is that invisible war. The Crossing Crossing 3. 1 Resistance via

The thick white masses in the foreground are not clouds — they are the accumulated weight of everything held in and held down

Acrylic on premium linen canvas with layered dark-ground technique

Four figures

their stripped forms creating a vertical rhythm against warm orange sky and dark bush backdrop

the effort is real and the flow is real simultaneously

Paradox: Every question dismantles a familiar wall

I recognised myself in them

contemplative spaces

The surface — pale yellow washes

5 — Dormancy via Revealing

Mixed media on stretched canvas

The moon lit without asking