Sailing Nowhere

Year | 2025

Medium | Oil on canvas

Size | 17.9 W x 20.9 H in

Additional Details | “Sailing Nowhere” depicts the intersection of fantasy and obedience: How easy it is to follow an image of a future instead of checking where you’re actually stepping. In this work, figures with their eyes covered by a paper boat walk toward a curtain painted to look like a vast, safe ocean, believing in the facade of safety, unaware of the drop behind the curtain. It’s not meant to be cynical about hope, but more about how performance of safety (‘Look, there’s the sea!’) can dismiss reality-checking, and how close the hidden perils exist in reality.