VELVET
Velvet is a body of work using light and color to highlight fragments of a landscape, lulling the viewer into a sense of quiet complacency. Yet an undercurrent of vulnerability persists—shaped by darkness and the unknown. What lies just beyond the motel stairs? Is the idling car simply waiting, or watching as a young woman walks home? Feral horses move through the streets, searching for food in the trash; one lifts its injured hoof. Their presence echoes a broader vulnerability—spaces where safety feels uncertain, and never equally held. Each image hovers between beauty and precarity, where the visible and the hidden remain in tension. This work extends my ongoing exploration of public space as unevenly experienced—where some claim their place, while others remain guarded.
