Title: Silence is the Loudest Thing I Own
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 20 inches (0.5” depth)
Year: 2025
Description:
This painting confronts the paradox that silence often reverberates louder than sound. A central face, painted in vivid strokes of pink, yellow, and blue, stares outward with hollowed eyes — a gaze suspended between vulnerability and defiance. A jagged black grin cuts across the composition, both playful and menacing, symbolizing the fracture between inner truth and outward restraint.
Above the head, a crown of spectral red figures emerges like restless thoughts or haunting memories, while arcs of rainbow color frame the piece in tones that oscillate between irony and hope. The canvas becomes a collision of chaos and stillness, suggesting that what remains unsaid can be the most deafening presence of all.