‘Ice Cream at 3am’

Ice Cream at 3 a.m. stages an intimate act of refusal: a solitary woman eats in a darkened kitchen while the rest of the world performs sleep, order, and self-control. Rendered in stark black and white, the domestic interior becomes cinematic—part sanctuary, part evidence. Heavy shadows consume the room as fragments of light gather around her, transforming an ordinary craving into a charged private ritual.

The painting inhabits the hour when discipline loosens and the self becomes briefly unobserved. Here, appetite is not guilt or indulgence, but agency: the small, defiant freedom to want something and take it without explanation. Neither lonely nor serene, the figure occupies the uneasy space between exhaustion and pleasure—awake, unproductive, and entirely her own.

Oil on Canvas
16 by 20 inches
2026