painting • oil on canvas • 80 x 85 cm
In I’ve Crawled on Six Crooked Highways, I explore the tension between perseverance and vulnerability. The figure confronts a space of uncertainty, bent low and poised on the edge of a "black-box"-like structure that holds both past and future without revealing its power. This crouching posture embodies a moment of introspection—caught between collapse and determination. The stark geometry and exaggerated shadow heighten the sense of isolation, while the restrained palette evokes an emotional landscape as much as a physical one. The painting reflects the quiet, often unseen labor of navigating the unknown, and the human impulse to keep moving even when the path ahead remains obscured.
(Title impaired by "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" • Bob Dylan • 1963)
