Pierced by Awareness

16 × 20 in. | Acrylic on canvas | Original, one of one

There’s a point in loving someone where awareness stops feeling like clarity and starts feeling like damage.

You notice every shift. Every silence. Every contradiction. You start seeing so much that you can’t tell what’s real anymore and what you’ve dissected into existence.

Pierced by Awareness is about that fracture. The eyes are perception multiplying until it becomes unbearable, while the forms cutting through them represent love doing the opposite: puncturing all that certainty and completely rearranging what you thought you knew.

Sometimes love doesn’t make you see clearly.

Sometimes it shatters the lens.