Title: I Caught Myself
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 24” x 24”
Year: 2025
I Caught Myself is a vivid, visceral collision of body, color, and machinery. A suspended figure twists midair—caught in a moment of impact or introspection—entangled in a golden chain-link fence that slices the canvas into emotional quadrants. The vibrant palette blurs joy and danger, neon hope and metallic wreckage. Two cars crash through the frame like memories that won’t stay buried.
The body’s posture suggests both surrender and reclamation, as if the subject is mid-fall yet already in the act of saving herself. Painted in saturated, unnatural hues, she becomes emblematic of the surreal disorientation that follows trauma or revelation. The chain-link fence acts as both a boundary and a grid of accountability—a symbol of entrapment but also self-recognition. This piece asks: When everything collides—past, body, velocity—what part of us steps in and says “enough”?
An exploration of autonomy in the chaos, I Caught Myself speaks to the raw moments of internal rupture, when we see ourselves not as victims of circumstance, but as witnesses to our own awakening.