Symphony of the Machine
Post Painting
2025
While the war machine roars, automated, sanctioned, and unfeeling, a lone orchestra performs. Explosions flicker on the horizon like distant applause, but the musicians do not yield. They play with the calm precision of those who know they cannot stop the end, but refuse to be written out of it.
This is not resistance through power, but through presence. Against the grinding gears of empire, the orchestra offers something the machine cannot compute: grace, vulnerability, and unspoken unity.
These paintings capture that impossible tension, between creation and destruction, between the delicate arc of a bow and the drone of mechanized violence. The music doesn’t fight back, it simply insists on being heard.
A final performance, not for victory, but to affirm that humanity endures.
