48x48, acrylic
 
"Melodrama" is a visceral exploration of grief’s emotional intensity. A skeletal figure anchors the composition, its form both fragile and defiant amid a fragmented, textured backdrop. Shades of red, black, and earth tones collide in an almost apocalyptic atmosphere, evoking turmoil and disintegration. Bold brushstrokes and smeared pigments create a sense of motion, as if the figure is simultaneously emerging from and dissolving into the chaos. There’s a raw urgency in the paint’s application in which the work was born from a moment of deep emotional release—an outpouring rather than a composition.