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2025
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A dead bird stands with its wings spread and its body torn open, exposing everything that was once protected underneath its feathers and skin. Its eyes are crossed out and its organs are visible, yet the bird remains upright, almost posed as though it is still alive.
Death usually marks an ending, but here it also becomes a moment of complete exposure. While alive, the bird's body concealed everything happening inside of it. Once opened, there is suddenly nothing left to hide. The outside no longer matters because everything underneath it has been revealed.
The piece plays with the difference between how something appears and what actually exists beneath the surface. From the outside, a person can look healthy, happy, successful, or completely put together while carrying an entirely different reality internally. We rarely get to see everything another person carries.
There is also something intentionally absurd about the bird still standing with its wings stretched outward despite being obviously dead. It creates an uncomfortable combination of humor and morbidity. The bird almost looks like it is proudly presenting itself at the exact moment when there is nothing left of itself to protect.
Nothing Left to Hide takes the idea of vulnerability to its most literal extreme. Sometimes we spend our entire lives controlling what other people are allowed to see, only for the truth underneath us to be far messier, stranger, and more complicated than the version we show the world.
2025
6 × 8 in.
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
A dead bird stands with its wings spread and its body torn open, exposing everything that was once protected underneath its feathers and skin. Its eyes are crossed out and its organs are visible, yet the bird remains upright, almost posed as though it is still alive.
Death usually marks an ending, but here it also becomes a moment of complete exposure. While alive, the bird's body concealed everything happening inside of it. Once opened, there is suddenly nothing left to hide. The outside no longer matters because everything underneath it has been revealed.
The piece plays with the difference between how something appears and what actually exists beneath the surface. From the outside, a person can look healthy, happy, successful, or completely put together while carrying an entirely different reality internally. We rarely get to see everything another person carries.
There is also something intentionally absurd about the bird still standing with its wings stretched outward despite being obviously dead. It creates an uncomfortable combination of humor and morbidity. The bird almost looks like it is proudly presenting itself at the exact moment when there is nothing left of itself to protect.
Nothing Left to Hide takes the idea of vulnerability to its most literal extreme. Sometimes we spend our entire lives controlling what other people are allowed to see, only for the truth underneath us to be far messier, stranger, and more complicated than the version we show the world.