As The World Turns invites viewers to look beyond surface impressions into spaces behind and beneath, where secrets and struggles endure out of sight, held in the past and imagined futures.
A postcard-like landscape of the same farmhouse in different seasons is deliberately ruptured and opened, exposing the reverse of the canvas and small green toy soldiers—some locked in battle, others climbing above. Faint traces of another painted scene bleed through from the front, leaving ghostly stains that mark the hidden side as a record of unseen realities.
These hidden elements haunt the quiet composition, reminding us that behind every calm façade private histories and conflicts continue, whether remembered, ongoing, or still to come. The work echoes the cycles of the seasons, where change is constant and time repeats, but not everything is visible. The ordinary carries conflict. Some things remain buried in the layers, fought over, hidden in time, or surviving in the spaces behind and beneath.
Every surface peace is contingent, provisional, and haunted by what it conceals.
 
2025   , Oil on canvas and fpund objects    
22 x 24 x 1.5