The Lost Wing

53 x 45.5 cm oil on canvas, 2021-2024


The paper boat, precarious upon the vast, boundless ocean,
symbolizes an extreme internal anxiety, as if it might tear and sink at any moment,
and the fatal wandering of a self that knows not where it is headed.
The floating figure, with one wing lost, represents a self fragmented
by external gazes and discrimination.
The mysterious white hands surrounding
the fragile paper boat visualize the terror
that they might drag it down into the deep depths at any moment,
and the intense anxiety of that time.
The paper boat lingering on the water projects the anxiety
and wounds of an existence perpetually haunted
by the fear of sinking amidst the harsh currents of the era.