Sailing Nowhere (2024)

20.9 x 17.9 | Oil on Canvas

I created this to explore the tension between fantasy and obedience: how easy it is to follow an image of a future instead of checking where you’re actually stepping. It’s not meant to be cynical about hope. It’s more about how performance (“Look, there’s the sea!”) can replace reality-checking, and how fast that can become dangerous. In this work, children walk toward a curtain painted to look like the ocean with paper boats covering their eyes. They believe in the picture of safety and move forward with total confidence, unaware there’s a drop behind the curtain.