The Sky Between Us, 2025

At the heart of the series is the bird: a fluid, shifting metaphor for freedom, fragility, and the soul in motion. It embodies trust-to love without possession, to release without certainty, to let something go. Yet within that surrender lies a quiet hope: not for restoration, but for transformation.

Birds have long been seen as omens-symbols of freedom and transcendence, messengers of change, and carriers of meaning from the spiritual world. They speak to the soul's desire to rise above what confines it, to move through cycles of loss and renewal, to find clarity in transition. A bird in flight may signal hope, a new beginning, or the return of something thought lost. But it can also embody foreboding, or echo the ache of something that will not come back.

In these paintings, the bird hovers between presence and absence, life and death, freedom and possession. It is the space where grief rises and recedes, where love reshapes itself. The woman in the paintings is not passive. She is porous, vulnerable, open. Her tenderness becomes a place of refuge and invitation.The bird, too, is not simply fleeing-it is circling. It returns. "If you let a bird go, and it returns, it was always yours," the old saying goes. But these works ask something deeper: What if the return is not possession, but recognition? What if love is not a cage, but a current-something we enter, leave, and return to freely?

The Sky Between Us is not about endings. It's about the space between release and return-the stillness before the wings beat again. Sometimes, the bird does return. Sometimes, it doesn't need to. Because the flight itself becomes the healing.