Phoenix

“Phoenix” is an expressive, gestural drawing that captures a moment of emergence rather than arrival. Built from restless, looping lines, the form appears to rise and unravel at the same time—suggesting a body in transformation. The figure is not fully defined; instead, it hovers between abstraction and recognition, echoing the unstable nature of rebirth itself.

The restrained palette heightens this effect. Black lines coil and fracture across the surface, carrying a sense of inner turbulence, while the sharp red shape cuts through the composition like a pulse or wound. This red rupture reads simultaneously as flame, blood, and wing—an essential force that propels the figure upward even as it exposes vulnerability.

Unlike traditional depictions of the phoenix as triumphant and whole, this work lingers in the fragile in-between: the moment where destruction and renewal coexist. Phoenix frames rebirth not as a clean resurgence, but as a raw, ongoing process—one that is messy, painful, and alive with motion.