acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in.
2022
seed 4.3 presents a pale form stretched across a dense black ground—symmetrical in theory, but slightly destabilized in execution. its shape pushes outward, pressing toward the canvas edges, as though testing the limits of its own container. balance is pursued, not enforced.
the work belongs to the early development of the seeds series, where forms were composed freehand with no external aids—relying solely on internal calibration. here, the white figure behaves like a schematic: a graphic presence that’s both assertive and unresolved. its proportions suggest a body, a symbol, or a threshold—but never settle into any one reading.
texture accumulates along the black surface, animating the negative space with subtle static. this contrast between stillness and agitation heightens the painting’s psychological charge: a visual standoff between expansion and restraint.
like others in the series, seed 4.3 proposes structure as a coping mechanism—an abstracted architecture built not for shelter, but for holding tension. it is a visual system forged through discipline, pressure, and emotional compression.