In Everything Up There Looks Away, a quiet moment unfolds beneath an overwhelming sky. A woman leans back, shielding her eyes from a blazing, fractured sun — not in surrender, but in reluctant recognition. A figure draped in deep reds and muted pastels sits still and grounded, her posture calm, her gaze lowered, as if already resigned to what the light reveals.
The sky dominates the composition — vast, orange, unignorable. It presses downward, almost claustrophobic, splitting into sharp geometric lines that suggest something fractured beyond the horizon. The light doesn’t illuminate — it interrogates. And yet, the title suggests something more unsettling: even when we look up for answers, everything up there looks away.
Executed in bold linework and expressive, layered color, the piece blends raw emotional tension with graphic simplicity. The figures feel both intimate and symbolic — caught somewhere between personal reckoning and universal indifference. A scrap of paper rests loosely in hand, as if words were once meant to explain what now feels too large to contain.
This work explores themes of avoidance, disconnection, and the uneasy relationship between human vulnerability and the vastness above us — whether that “above” is spiritual, societal, or internal.
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