Artwork title : The Price of Justice

The Price of Justice is an encaustic meditation on the human cost of witnessing, resistance, and moral awakening in the face of contemporary acts against humanity. The work does not function as documentation, but as an embodied response to the psychic and ethical weight carried by those who expose violence, speak truth, and refuse silence.

The composition moves between vast, luminous blue fields and dense, ruptured vertical forms, evoking both abyss and uprising and depth and fracture. These looming, eroded structures read simultaneously as bodies, cliffs, and collapsing institutions. Wax becomes both veil and vessel: it obscures and reveals, preserves and distorts, mirroring the way truth is layered, buried, and fought for within systems of power.

The surface of textile, encaustic, pastel and oil holds a tension between flow and resistance. Molten passages suggest grief, witness, and collective memory in motion, while hardened ridges form barriers and sites of compression where human life meets political force. Light is not presented as clean illumination, but as something fractured and costly, emerging through pressure, sediment, and rupture.