Instinct

About this work

Inspired by the lens of wildlife photographer David Whelan, this is not a portrait of power but of vulnerability. Those pale, searching eyes belong to a creature that feels everything, that moves through the world with total presence and zero certainty. Every stripe a map of something wild and irreplaceable. A reminder that the most intense things in this world are also the most fragile, and that beauty and endangerment have always lived side by side. Acrylic on canvas.