Threaded Paradox

This light and spacious composition features a hand-embroidered line of cursive text that reads "my strength is in my weakness, my weakness is in my strength", threading quietly across the canvas. The phrase acts as both a mantra and a conceptual anchor, articulating the paradox at the heart of the work.

Organic, flowing shapes rendered in muted pink and deep gray oil stick occupy the space like tangled bodies or emotional states in motion. Their swarming, layered lines evoke vulnerability and tension, hinting at transformation. Two smaller forms suggest fingerprints or cellular structures—traces of identity, memory, or something yet to form.

The painting embraces ambiguity and potential. It captures a moment of emergence, with the surrounding open space on the canvas suggesting that something more is coming into being. A meditation on strength, fragility, and the generative nature of contradiction, the work invites quiet contemplation on what lies beneath the surface and what is yet to unfold.