Fly Away, 48" x 60"

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Through its interplay of bold color fields, diagonal motion, and spatial tension, the work dramatizes the act of leaving — not as a fixed event, but as an ongoing, dynamic state.

The composition is grounded in opposition: a central mass of dark teal and black stands vertical and grounded, while two diagonal bands — one yellow, one blue — cut across it in opposite directions. This creates a visual tension between gravity and flight. The vertical is stability, weight, perhaps even confinement; the diagonals are release, motion, and possibility.

The red background expands across the canvas like a stage or atmosphere, simultaneously enclosing the figures and amplifying their energy. The color fields are flat, yet their interaction creates depth through contrast.

Color is not decorative here; it is the very subject of the work.

• Red operates as a field of vitality, charged with urgency. It recalls heat, emotion, or even a burning horizon.
• Dark Teal/Black embodies mass, density, the grounding force — the anchor against which motion defines itself.
• Yellow is light, energy, optimism. Its slash across the canvas feels sudden, a strike of freedom.
• Blue (both light and sky) conveys openness and breath. Its diagonal trajectory recalls the sky, flight, and expansion into infinite space.

The chromatic choices elevate the painting beyond abstraction into metaphor. Together, they evoke the drama of human striving: to break free, to lift, to transcend.

What distinguishes Fly Away is its insistence on motion. The diagonals cut through the vertical in a way that cannot be static. The viewer’s eye is swept diagonally upward and outward, tracing the trajectory of imagined flight. Unlike a balanced, symmetrical structure, this asymmetry carries time within it — the sense of a moment unfolding, of a before and after.

Fly Away is a meditation on the poetics of departure. Its strength lies not in depicting flight literally, but in evoking its emotional and existential resonance. Through its diagonals, it captures the energy of release; through its color fields, it speaks to the tension between groundedness and transcendence.

Ultimately, the painting becomes less about where one flies to, and more about the act of flying itself — the exhilarating, terrifying, and profound human impulse to move beyond one’s boundaries.