Desire Ambition II

Japanese-inspired landscape with windswept pine trees on rocky cliffs over abstract blue ocean and colorful horizontal geometric bands

This piece sits somewhere between landscape and system. The trees and rocks are drawn from traditional landscape imagery, but the horizontal bands cut through the scene like signals, data, or time. I am interested in the moment where something organic and slow-moving—like a tree growing on a cliff—intersects with something fast, structured, and man-made. The image is split like a folding screen or a broken display, suggesting that what we see is only a partial view. It is about persistence, pressure, and trying to grow anyway.