Surrender

Core Themes Emerging

Solitude and Fortitude – Not as isolation, but as states of becoming. The square, often associated with stability, symmetry, and containment, becomes an ideal form to reflect the boundaries you’re both reinforcing and beginning to soften.
Transition Toward Self – A meditative release of expectations placed upon you by others. You’re examining identity within a group structure and choosing to step back while stepping inward.
Over-reach and Resistance – The confrontation between one’s idealistic effort and real-world friction. This is especially compelling: the idea that too much light can blind, and that leadership doesn’t always yield welcome reform.
Disruption as Necessary – Rather than resisting disruption, you’re channeling it into your visual language. This suggests a shift from control to acceptance, with compositional implications—fractures, tension, layering, unexpected juxtapositions.
Surrender as Empowerment – Not giving up, but giving in to a deeper rhythm. This nuance could be the beating heart of the series.

On the Square as Meditation

The square holds a fascinating psychological and spiritual history—it’s:

a symbol of order and earthly reality in many traditions,
a place of balance and symmetry, yet prone to disruption with the slightest shift.
the opposite of chaos, until you press on its edges.
By using the square as the recurring form, we’re setting up a visual mantra, a field for change. It becomes a container not for confinement, but for controlled letting-go.

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