54 cm (H) x 40 cm (W)
Oil on stretched canvas.
 
Sightless Bloom is a self portrait painted in oil with palette knife pressure and layered brushwork. The surface is worked and reworked, leaving drag marks, scraped passages, and dense areas of pigment that give the face a softened, shifting edge. Cool blues and inky blacks sit behind the figure like a tide, while sharp, acid greens break through the ground in small flashes.
 
The work sits with the idea of unrecognised growth. It speaks to moving forward while still being pulled by old narratives, and to the quiet shock of realising you have already changed. Painted as an annotation of self acceptance, the piece holds the moment where anxiety loosens, not through a dramatic break, but through a slower kind of seeing.