About the Artwork

Compulsion drills into the psyche with restless, near-feral energy. The marks feel urgent, like they had to happen—scratched out of impulse more than intention. Color functions like memory here: fractured, unreliable, and emotionally charged. Smears of flesh tones twist through shadowy greens and bruised reds, caught in loops of repetition and erasure. Echoes of de Kooning’s raw vulnerability and Cecily Brown’s chaotic desire surface in the const