My concept for this image is rooted in a deeply intimate and haunting personal experience. In 2018, I was violently assaulted, struck from behind with an object, leaving me seriously injured and bleeding. Through this piece, I aim to channel the overwhelming sensation of that moment: the disorientation, the helplessness, the abrupt shattering of bodily integrity.
The use of colour and atmosphere serves to evoke the emotional residue of that event a timeless, suspended state of shock. It is the visual embodiment of what it feels like when everything becomes too much, when one's system collapses into stillness and fear, yet the soul remains in motion, trembling.
The central emotional motif is that of a deer frozen on a country road, caught in the high beams of an oncoming car: motionless, exposed, yet internally in chaos. I want to capture that paradox: stillness and terror, vulnerability and wild intensity. Through abstraction, colour, and form, this work speaks to the visceral silence of trauma and the luminous fragility of survival.
