No Lifeguard

Acrylic paint, paper, found objects, digital collage on canvas. 52"x41" Framed. Made in 2025. This mixed media painting bursts with layered energy, a kaleidoscope of color and texture colliding against a dark, atmospheric ground. Neon fragments surface like half-remembered flashes of memory. At the lower left, the silhouette of a child with a jump rope anchors the chaos in a moment of innocence, while iridescent forms scatter across the canvas like refracted light. The surrounding marks—splashes, drips, and bursts—convey both wonder and disorientation, as if caught between play and collapse. The title, No Lifeguard, resonates as a warning: amid the swirling noise of consumer culture, nostalgia, and spectacle, there is no one to mediate or rescue. The black central field reads like both cosmic space and urban grit, an explosion where meaning fragments and reassembles. Balancing vibrancy with unease, the work becomes a meditation on survival.