Original Painting | Against the tide | Crossing: 3.1 | 100 x 100 cm

Original Painting | Against the tide | Crossing: 3.1 | 100 x 100 cmTitle: 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

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 Holding — Holding the Conflict. A small body moves through blue water surrounded by rock that dwarfs it from every side. The swimmer holds the conflict in the body — carrying everything, showing nothing. At 3.1, the silence is not peace. It is a weapon turned inward, and the weight grows every stroke.

Presence

A small figure swims through deep blue water surrounded by large blue and purple rock formations, with a single warm orange rock creating contrast in a composition dominated by cool blue tones.

Specialised Pigments

Acrylic on stretched canvas. Mineral pigments in layered blue and purple passages with bold directional brushwork, building depth through rock formations and water.

Display Suggestions

Private spaces where inner strength and endurance are acknowledged.