Artist Statement:

This is a piece about choice as disappearance. In He Knew One Path Would Vanish When Chosen, I wanted to capture the exact moment where decision becomes erasure. The staircase isn’t ascent. The hallway isn’t descent. They are both forms of departure. The man’s shadow lengthens not because of time, but because of doubt. The light is architectural — a harsh grace that outlines what will soon no longer exist.

This is not a fork in the road. This is the cost of remembering you had one.

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They never knocked. Never spoke. Just stood there—always in the same suits, always facing the same direction, like a memory frozen in the act of forgetting you. You pulled back the curtain, held your breath, and watched. They did not move.

You’re not sure when they arrived. Only that they never left.

Artist Process:

This piece uses sharp contrast and framing to build tension—placing the viewer in the role of the observer, half-hidden behind a caravan window. The color palette leans toward muted autumnal tones, emphasizing the leaf-littered ground and bare trees as symbols of decay and stasis. The repetition of identical suited figures evokes a surreal, uncanny sensation, inspired by dream logic and surveillance culture. The stillness is deliberate—this moment feels like it could last forever, or snap in an instant.

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He didn’t know if the next stone would hold him. But in that suspended breath between steps, he remembered: we are not meant to stay dry. The winter did not promise safety—only a kind of brutal honesty in its stillness.

Artist Process:

The figure stands mid-motion on a path of river stones, poised at the edge of unknown terrain. The snow-blanketed field, skeletal trees, and burnished sky are rendered with textural richness—evoking both isolation and ceremony. The composition leans into the surreal by removing identifiers, letting posture and setting do all the emotional lifting. It’s about vulnerability in the rawest season.

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Artist Statement:

The body is paused — but the light keeps climbing.

This piece holds its breath at the edge of motion.

We do not see what waits above.

Only the pull — the silence before ascent.

Shot through with grain like static in memory, the frame captures the limbo between what was and what might be.

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