Breath of Life (2020)
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas

Breath of Life, drawn from a cherished photograph, captures the artist’s late father mid-inhale. In this snapshot of a moment, he is caught between breath and a smile. The detailed rendering of his hair and skin in charcoal carries both the immediacy of presence and the awareness of its passing. Fine, precise lines around his eyes and brow offer a glimpse into a life lived and a body in motion.

This work is more than portraiture. It is an image of life itself, suspended in a single moment. Charcoal, fragile and elemental, preserves what is fleeting: a breath, a gesture, a spark of vitality.

Here, personal memory opens onto a shared meditation on time and mortality. Dust and breath converge in the fragile beauty of a single passing moment of human life. It is finite yet luminous, transient yet imbued with the hope of something enduring.