What does it mean to depart without dying? Four Ways to Leave the Body is a quiet meditation on presence, perception, and personal thresholds. A ghost glides between trees—perhaps memory, perhaps myth. A figure in shadow lingers in a doorway, caught between the warmth of the sun and the gravity of abandonment. Another walks into the dappled hush of a forest clearing, her oversized hat like a moon pulled close. And finally, the surreal—skin traded for translucent moss and mineral, a face swallowed in sculpture, as if nature itself has begun to dream in human form. These are not disappearances. They are transfigurations.

Artist Process:

This four-panel composition was constructed to explore psychological and metaphysical exit points—each vignette offering a different visual language. Desaturation and motion blur evoke haunting in the first frame; chiaroscuro in the second speaks to hesitation and thresholds. The third frame shifts to narrative surrealism through lighting and pastoral tone, while the final panel embraces high-concept texture and materiality, turning the face into a living sculpture. Together, the panels form a nonlinear story—each piece distinct, yet bound by the shared silence of transformation.

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