Stories Untold unfolds as a visual book composed of three metaphorical chapters, tracing my ongoing exploration of the sea as both subject and metaphor. Begun in 2018 after my debut solo exhibition Sea Change, this body of work moves between abstraction and hyperrealism to consider the ocean as a vessel for memory, grief, healing, and transformation.
Within these paintings, waves recur as patterns, fractals, and shifting forms—structures that echo the rhythms of existence and the tension between order and chaos. To perceive a wave is to recognize a pattern, yet each pattern reveals the impossibility of ever fully stepping outside one’s own perceptions. The sea becomes a language of ambiguity, a space where clarity dissolves and reconstitutes itself.
Stories Untold exists in this liminal —the wave is a metaphor, a motion, a form. It’s in the maybe, the space between clarity and ambiguity, between pattern and form, between thought, time, and transformation—that each work becomes an act of both deconstruction and reconstruction. Though rooted in personal narrative, the work invites viewers to locate their own meanings within its chapters, forming a story without a beginning or an end.