Beyond comprehension

This work was started in March 2025 and carried through to September, during a storm that was both personal and collective. In my own life, it marked the rupture of family, love, and belonging; in the outside world, it echoed the fracture of global orders, the growing polarisation, the sense of being pushed into sides rather than invited to build or connect.

The figure — headless, folded, raw — embodies collapse and refusal. It recalls Rodin’s fragmented women, where absence is revelation rather than lack. The head is overrated anyway. The body here is the only site of truth, when the head can no longer bear or make sense.

Around it swirls a storm of layered colors and fragile, flowing white lines: part dream, part psyche, part outside world. These currents nod to Jung’s language of symbols and shadow, carrying unconscious forces that both overwhelm and guide. The turbulence is also societal: the loneliness of one self in a fractured collective, the exhaustion of trying to stay connected in an unraveling world.

Beyond Comprehension is a lived document — six months of disruption, grief, and slow emergence. It stages the impossibility of making sense, and the strange possibility of being carried beyond reason. I paint what happens when comprehension packs its bags and leaves the room