‘Soft Chaos’
Soft Chaos is a portrait of the emotional space we never perform for others. The figure isn’t dramatic or heroic; she feels like a thought in progress, a person caught inside her own internal weather. The grayscale palette lets every highlight and shadow behave like a mood, every smudge like hesitation, every soft transition like the quiet way anxiety moves through the body.
The collage layers underneath — old text, textures, splashes, glitter, scribbles — are not decoration. They are the emotional archive we carry everywhere: unfinished ideas, crossed-out phrases, desires that never made it to language, fears that return without warning. Painting over these fragments felt like a way of admitting that identity is never polished; it’s layered, contradictory, and always in motion.
Soft Chaos is about the kind of overwhelm that doesn’t scream. It’s slow, familiar, repetitive — the thoughts that return late at night, the private negotiations we have with ourselves, the tenderness that can exist even when the mind feels messy. This painting is a reminder that internal chaos can coexist with softness, and that transformation doesn’t need clarity to be real.