Nobody is coming.
Not because you aren't worth saving. Because you are the only one who was present for all of it. Every moment of loss, every thing you loved, every experience that shaped the person standing here now. No one else has the full picture. No one else knows what you actually need to be saved from. The life you're dreaming of is an inside job because you are its sole inhabitant.
This is not a hard truth. It is a liberating one.
No One Is Coming To Save You was made on a table, paint applied directly from tube to canvas, colours placed and combined across the surface as the canvas turned repeatedly throughout the process. What emerged through that turning was a surface of genuine complexity: warm peach and sand across the upper field, pink looping through the mid-ground, yellow building in the lower left, teal and green showing through from an earlier layer beneath everything. The painting accumulated rather than was planned, each rotation revealing new relationships between colours that had been placed without full knowledge of what they would become next to each other.
The cobalt blue arrived last. Unlike the colours beneath it, which were found through the turning process, the cobalt was worked in passes, expanding slowly and deliberately into its final vertical form, a touch of black deepening it as it grew. It is the most resolved mark on the canvas, the one element that arrived with certainty after everything else had found its place. The horizontal stroke crossing it at the top gives it an almost architectural presence, a fixed point in a field of beautiful, productive uncertainty.
The painting's formal argument mirrors its title precisely. Everything else on the canvas was discovered. The cobalt was decided. That distinction is what sovereignty looks like.
From the Wild collection, 2024.
From the artist's journal:
"Creating the life of my dreams is an inside job because I am the sole inhabitant of my life. I am the only person present for all that I have experienced and felt and lost and love. No one else knows what I need to be saved from."
Nobody is coming.
Not because you aren't worth saving. Because you are the only one who was present for all of it. Every moment of loss, every thing you loved, every experience that shaped the person standing here now. No one else has the full picture. No one else knows what you actually need to be saved from. The life you're dreaming of is an inside job because you are its sole inhabitant.
This is not a hard truth. It is a liberating one.
No One Is Coming To Save You was made on a table, paint applied directly from tube to canvas, colours placed and combined across the surface as the canvas turned repeatedly throughout the process. What emerged through that turning was a surface of genuine complexity: warm peach and sand across the upper field, pink looping through the mid-ground, yellow building in the lower left, teal and green showing through from an earlier layer beneath everything. The painting accumulated rather than was planned, each rotation revealing new relationships between colours that had been placed without full knowledge of what they would become next to each other.
The cobalt blue arrived last. Unlike the colours beneath it, which were found through the turning process, the cobalt was worked in passes, expanding slowly and deliberately into its final vertical form, a touch of black deepening it as it grew. It is the most resolved mark on the canvas, the one element that arrived with certainty after everything else had found its place. The horizontal stroke crossing it at the top gives it an almost architectural presence, a fixed point in a field of beautiful, productive uncertainty.
The painting's formal argument mirrors its title precisely. Everything else on the canvas was discovered. The cobalt was decided. That distinction is what sovereignty looks like.
From the Wild collection, 2024.
From the artist's journal:
"Creating the life of my dreams is an inside job because I am the sole inhabitant of my life. I am the only person present for all that I have experienced and felt and lost and love. No one else knows what I need to be saved from."
