Letting Go

Oil on canvas

24”x30”

2025

In this painting, you see the gradual dissolution of form, as if the image itself is fading away. The colors melt into one another—dark blues as if something is drifting into the distance, no longer held by the weight of definition. The shapes, once sharp and clear, blur as they reach the edges of the canvas, like memories gently slipping through our fingers.

The figure appears to be caught in a moment of surrender, their face tilting upward as if floating between consciousness and dream. Their features, though soft and delicate, seem to fragment, dissolving into the surrounding darkness. The use of deep, immersive blues evokes a sense of melancholy and introspection, as if the subject is neither fully here nor completely gone—existing in the liminal space between presence and absence.

There is a weightlessness to the brushstrokes, as if time itself is erasing the form, unraveling the identity once held so firmly. The gentle distortion suggests a transition—whether it is a letting go of the past, a release of pain, or a quiet acceptance of impermanence. The single earring, barely visible, is like a final tether to reality, a small anchor to what once was.