Surrender

Poetic Captions

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.

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.

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.