Surrender

Symbolic and Emotional Read

Together, the full selected grouping of these pieces attempts to form a deeply resonant and quietly radical progression. The series reflects my themes of solitude, fortitude, and the eventual surrender to self with striking clarity and nuance.

A series that creates a tension between:

Order and organic growth
Opacity and transparency
Containment and release
The vessel and what it holds (or withholds)

Each work is grounded in the square or rectangle, used as ritual structure—walls, boundaries, blocks of silence. But with each new image, something starts to grow through the structure.

Unifying Elements

Botanical forms as soul/self
Vessels as identity or containment
Square/rectangles as external roles, societal norms, group pressures
Gradation of transparency and fragmentation as emotional and psychological transitions
Indigo/black tones evoke introspection, mourning, and quiet strength

Poetic Captions

1. HELD

I shaped myself to hold more than I could carry.
The structure stood firm.
So I folded inward,
tightly wrapped in stillness.

2. ROOT

Even silence seeks direction.
Beneath the grid,
the breath of something
old and patient began to stir.

3. EDGE

Not all fractures break.
I leaned into the boundary
and found it trembling,
already soft at the seams.

4. CRACK

What begins as fracture becomes form.
The pressure split the line—
not to destroy,
but to invite the next shape.

5. ECHO

The part of me I left behind still listens.
Two vessels, two voices—
one reaching,
the other remembering.

6. YIELD

I surrendered nothing but the weight.
The form remained,
but this time,
I chose what would grow within it.

This series reflects an introspective progression from containment to growth. Using vessel and botanical forms within rigid geometric frameworks, the artist explores the emotional terrain of surrender: relinquishing control, resisting negative collective forces, and reclaiming inner quiet. The aesthetic vocabulary draws from printmaking traditions, minimalism, and ritual abstraction.

Each square acts as a meditative window, and together the six works chart a clear narrative arc—from suppression to resilience, fracture to quiet strength.

Their presence in my compositions speaks to both an uncovering and a becoming. These columnar totem shapes that I return to are symbolic anchors. Not just structural, but ancestral, spiritual, bodily. They hold memory, boundary, and resonance.

Their presence in these compositions speaks to:

Endurance—standing through storms, even when invisible forces try to reshape them.
Witnessing—a verticality that suggests presence, observance, and accumulated experience.
Lineage—as if each form contains layers of past selves, mothers, voices, or inherited roles.
And sometimes, resistance through stillness.