About this work

This work marks a pivot - not in style, but in posture. I have never believed a painting should be protected from becoming more than I expected it to be. That conviction has been part of my process from the beginning. What changed here wasn't the belief. It was my willingness to follow it further.

The surface was allowed to resist, fracture, erase itself, and ask for decisions I couldn't have anticipated. I stopped treating those moments as problems to solve and began accepting them as part of the conversation. The painting
didn't need to be protected from itself. It only asked that I remain honest enough to keep listening.

The title isn't about endurance.

It is about integrity.

There comes a point in every painting when I can no longer distinguish between courage and certainty. From there, every decision must earn its place. I continue only as long as I can make the next one honestly.

That is as far as I can walk.