One Year Project Work (The Dreamer) Oil & Enamel Contemporary Painting

Centered like an icon yet rendered with dreamlike slippage, the figure’s head becomes a sealed orb of landscape—sunset and earth compressed into a private cosmos—suggesting an identity rooted more in memory and territory than in portraiture. Flanked by two vigilant white cattle, the composition reads as a ceremonial guardianship: agrarian strength and quiet endurance framing a human presence that is both protector and protected. The dense lattice of leaves and fruit, painted in saturated, almost devotional color, turns the scene into a fertile tapestry where abundance feels fragile, as if paradise must be carried like the staff across the shoulder. In this deliberate symmetry, nature is not backdrop but witness, and the work proposes a contemporary pastoral myth about stewardship, labor, and the price of belonging.