Like its predecessor, it arose from a period of my life when I was living adrift. It explores the feelings of vulnerability and solitude that comes with prolonged instability.
In the absence of familiar anchors, one is compelled to find comfort within oneself. In the image, the woman seeks protection from a massive, lifeless stone—an entity made real only because she has decided it to be so. This allegory came from a guiding presence I sensed during my travels, which over time I came to understand as my own self.
Beneath the abundance of the Mediterranean landscape lays an ever-present tension: the hunter’s need to take, and the prey’s instinct to flee. Nature's need to survive, man's need to expand. Amongst it all, another confrontation emerges: a renewed version of myself seeking to replace the person I had once been.
In this duality, I became both hunter and prey, protector and protectee.
