Series overview:

Picking up the Pieces is a body of work defined by fracture and fragility. Executed on linen, a surface chosen for its softness and vulnerability, the series stages figures that appear broken, splintered, or dispersed. Limbs dissolve, faces fragment, bodies strain to cohere. Each painting becomes an image of survival, an attempt to gather what remains, to hold together even as everything threatens to fall apart.

The works are charged with a tension between collapse and repair. Fragmentation is never fully resolved; instead, the figures hover in a state of partial consolidation, grasping for unity while revealing their instability. The brushwork emphasizes this precariousness, alternating between passages of tenuous construction and areas left exposed.

At its core, Picking up the Pieces is a meditation on what persists after breakdown. It resists triumphal narratives of restoration, choosing instead to inhabit the fragile, provisional space of repair. These paintings acknowledge the impossibility of complete wholeness, finding meaning in the attempt itself, in the act of gathering fragments, even when the structure they form can never be seamles