Depression / Acceptance
Presented as part of a curated art show, these works explore darker emotional themes through imagery alone—stripped of descriptive text and left only with their titles as guides. The choice was intentional: by withholding explanation, the pieces invite the viewer to project their own narrative, confronting the raw emotions of despair, grief, and resolution. This project examined how visual language, without the weight of words, can still convey complexity and depth—proving that silence can be as powerful as description.
Location: Scranton, PA
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
Depression
Mixed Media
This piece confronts the weight of inner struggle, using stark contrasts of red and blue to embody both rupture and retreat. The fragmented face emerges through layered textures, as if caught between fading away and forcing itself into view. Though light pours across the canvas, the face turns away, refusing its presence even as it lingers unshakably near. Stripped of description beyond its title, the work challenges the viewer to confront the rawness of emotion directly—without narrative, without buffer. Depression becomes not only an image, but a mirror, inviting each person to find their own reflection in its fractured calm and unresolved energy.
Acceptance
Mixed Media
Where Depression turns away from light, Acceptance lifts toward it. The face emerges from darkness, no longer resisting, but surrendering to illumination that has always been present. The textures shift from oppressive weight to a softer, almost dissolving atmosphere, as if the figure is breathing freely for the first time. In its upward gaze and open form, the piece captures the quiet resilience of choosing to move forward—not in triumph, but in recognition. Acceptance here is less an ending than a release, an embrace of what remains.
